This seems simple but people often overlook the obvious. If you've got some requirements (small r, not even SRS or CMMi level stuff, but the more the better) let those requirements drive your tasking, and therefore, your staffing.
Plan what needs to be done and negotiate who's going to do what. If there's a need for the extra management, the planning should spell it out.
Keep team roles clear and agreed upon. If one of the new managers is supposed to interface with the customer, give them the role of "Customer Interface Manager" and make them report on their progress on a regular basis. Invent new roles as time goes on and you need them. Delete them as they go out of scope.
When I joined a group that had a 2 Million SLOC program, I learned the most by fixing defects. It gave me a good reason to go traipsing through the codebase. It's painful, but it gives you purpose while reading the code. Just plain reading it gets boring.
. . . is what I have. Buy a phone ($30 after rebates) and $100 of service, and the minutes are good for a year. One thing to watch out for is that most prepaid phones don't do any roaming at all. Check the prepaid coverage map, not just the regular coverage map.
The 'meta analysis' people have missed the true mechanism of the low carb diets. One of the things that drives hunger is a drop in blood sugar. When you eat carbs, your body has to release insulin to take up the carbs. After the carbs are processed, the blood sugar drops and you get hungry.
So, eating carbs makes you more hungry, more often.
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This seems simple but people often overlook the obvious. If you've got some requirements (small r, not even SRS or CMMi level stuff, but the more the better) let those requirements drive your tasking, and therefore, your staffing. Plan what needs to be done and negotiate who's going to do what. If there's a need for the extra management, the planning should spell it out. Keep team roles clear and agreed upon. If one of the new managers is supposed to interface with the customer, give them the role of "Customer Interface Manager" and make them report on their progress on a regular basis. Invent new roles as time goes on and you need them. Delete them as they go out of scope.
When I joined a group that had a 2 Million SLOC program, I learned the most by fixing defects. It gave me a good reason to go traipsing through the codebase. It's painful, but it gives you purpose while reading the code. Just plain reading it gets boring.
. . . is what I have. Buy a phone ($30 after rebates) and $100 of service, and the minutes are good for a year. One thing to watch out for is that most prepaid phones don't do any roaming at all. Check the prepaid coverage map, not just the regular coverage map.
So, eating carbs makes you more hungry, more often.
Cut the carbs, and you get hungry less often.
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And I live 10 minutes from it! Woo Hoo!