How Do You Know a Developer Is Doing a Good Job?

Re:How Do You Know a Developer Is Doing a Good Job? by pc86 on Friday February 10, 2017 @08:04AM (#13615076)

You can manage them, you just can't judge their work. I'm a team lead and I'm lucky in that my direct supervisor was a programmer for a long time, still runs a SaaS in his spare time, etc, so he gets it. But he has colleagues who are CPAs, management consultants, etc before they were managing their current dev teams.

They rely a lot more on their technical leads to tell them how the other devs are doing at a technical level. They're perfectly capable of managing their professional development without having an in-depth knowledge of enterprise architecture or C#.

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Re:How Do You Know a Developer Is Doing a Good Job? by ScottBurson on Friday February 10, 2017 @03:25PM (#13618567)

> They rely a lot more on their technical leads to tell them how the other devs are doing at a technical level.

So the leads are de facto managers in that they're assisting the manager in managing the other developers. I think this can work, but I don't think it contradicts what I said. It just means the leads wind up doing some managing even though that's not what their titles say.

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