A Plan to Turn Engineers into Managers

Re:A Plan to Turn Engineers into Managers by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @01:45PM (#10004957)

I've been places where I was there for the 8:00 PM bug (or later). At most of those places, my manager/supervisor was still there, too, trying to help us figure it out. If nothing else, they were there for encouragement and food runs. (If your engineers are working through dinner, feed them.)

Doing management right doesn't mean that you no longer are there at 8 PM. It means that you're there at 8 PM more often than any one of the people under you.

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Re:A Plan to Turn Engineers into Managers by jazzyk on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @02:58PM (#10005471)

Doing management right means your team does not have to work until 8pm every day.

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Re:A Plan to Turn Engineers into Managers by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @04:50PM (#10006201)

True. But it doesn't mean that your team never has to work until 8 PM.

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