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I don't know about you, but I become less productive the more I'm micromanaged. The company I work for now has problems managing customer expectations and cont

by jcadam 10y ago

I don't know about you, but I become less productive the more I'm micromanaged. The company I work for now has problems managing customer expectations and controlling scope creep, so naturally rather than address the real issues the PMs have decided it's easier to stick their noses in the CMMI manual and send the software development team straight to process improvement hell. I've reached the point where my motivation is so low it takes me a week to complete a task I know I could have done in a couple of hours if I could just reach down and muster up a little bit of give-a-shiat. I need to get out of this place, but I rather doubt any of the other major employers around here would be any better (I just interviewed at one that looked like it would be an even worse situation. They declined to make me an offer - the interviewer must have picked up on my shock/disgust when he described their development processes to me). Now, my side projects are seeing more love than ever before, probably because I need an outlet for my creativity (which my employer is most definitely not providing). One thing age and experience has given me is the ability to see my own projects through to some level of completion (as complete as software can be). My younger years were full of half-completed projects :) I'm working on something I hope to turn into a SaaS product, maybe that's the escape plan (If I'm really lucky).

gedrap 10y ago
Micromanagement is usually on the extreme end and is usually bad. However, hand holding, when the developer needs a variable level of managing and overseeing, is quite normal and usually reduces the variance of the produced work. You could say that micromanagement is the extreme form of hand holding. And the truth is that most of the developers need that. Some can be assigned a relatively abstract problem and they find the solution (by finding who to talk to, etc). While some needs a fair share of requirements gathering etc done for them, or they struggle to convert a large milestone to reasonable small tasks. That's ok, you just need to recognize it handle accordingly. >>> any of the other major employers around here would be any better major as in employing a large number of employees? Sometimes you can find happiness in a company of a dozen employees :)

by jcadam 10y ago

gedrap 10y ago

Micromanagement is usually on the extreme end and is usually bad. However, hand holding, when the developer needs a variable level of managing and overseeing, is quite normal and usually reduces the variance of the produced work. You could say that micromanagement is the extreme form of hand holding. And the truth is that most of the developers need that. Some can be assigned a relatively abstract problem and they find the solution (by finding who to talk to, etc). While some needs a fair share of requirements gathering etc done for them, or they struggle to convert a large milestone to reasonable small tasks. That's ok, you just need to recognize it handle accordingly. >>> any of the other major employers around here would be any better major as in employing a large number of employees? Sometimes you can find happiness in a company of a dozen employees :)