beardedinventor

Electric Imp - Los Altos - Full Time

At Electric Imp, we are inventing new ways for people to interact with everyday objects - from garage doors to lights to coffee pots – using their smartphone, tablet, or web browser. To get there, we are building cross-platform tools that are powerful enough to inspire hackers, yet approachable and elegant enough to be appealing to everyone.

We are a diverse team of professionals from Apple, Google, Yahoo!, Facebook and more. In our former lives, we built the iPhone, marketed Firefox, and designed Gmail. Together we are working on an even more revolutionary future, and we need your help!

We're hiring for a number of positions and growing rapidly (full details at http://electricimp.com/jobs/):

  - Senior Front-End Engineer
  - Front End Developer
  - Server Engineer
  - Lead Test Engineer
  - Hardware Engineer
  - iOS Developer
  - Android Developer
  - Evangelist

As a developer recently turned project manager I've come to learn a lot about planning and documentation. I understand the reluctance to plan, and to create project documents at the beginning of a project.. but there are good reasons.

One of the key was to create an environment where developers are free from distraction and able to efficiently develop is to have someone plan, and to communicate.

Here's my (somewhat brutal) response to your article: http://beardedinventor.com/blog/2013/01/23/plans-dont-kill-p...