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"I have been asked to be a much more proactive manager who actively keeps tabs on the developers and pushes the project forward." (This may sound flippant but
by plinkplonk 17y ago
"I have been asked to be a much more proactive manager who actively keeps tabs on the developers and pushes the project forward."
(This may sound flippant but that isn't the intended effect.) If you are the technical co founder of a startup and the early hires aren't managing themselves well, maybe you hired the wrong (type of) people?
Hard to give useful advice for such a generic/vague situation. But if I were you I'd just replace them with more self directed people. In an early stage startip I wouldn't want to do too much people management especially if it distracts the tech co founder.
My 2 cents.
- zaph0d 17y agoI agree with you completely. Unfortunately we are in a country where getting such kind of people is next to impossible. Engineers here are bred to work for services companies.
- plinkplonk 17y ago"Engineers here are bred to work for services companies." Heh! sounds like Bangalore (I live there). But otoh I know great (self directed!) programmers who'd love to work with a good startup. There are great engineers who aren't all looking to emigrate to the USA. But most work is the "work on grungy enterprise codebases no one in the west wants to touch. Not many great startups yet. Should write an essay about that one of these days.