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I have to say, what you describe as a manager seems to be more about the benefit to yourself and the way you 'control' your developers and less about trying to
by awjr 12y ago
I have to say, what you describe as a manager seems to be more about the benefit to yourself and the way you 'control' your developers and less about trying to provide an environment that is efficient for your devs to deliver code. A lot of the benefits you think you get from an open plan office seem to be achievable through tools like slack.com . Open plan really really sucks as a developer.
- knowaveragejoe 12y agoThe problem is that people hate adopting tools like Slack. They see it as just another tool they have to look at, and they totally discount that the communication is happening otherwise(either in person or another tool). It's not necessarily net new data that they now need to keep abreast of if you are, for example, replacing most email with it.
- lakis 12y agoAfter 22 years in software development, I have to say I am tired of all the new tools that supposedly solve all the world problems only to be abandoned in the next quarter. There is nothing wrong to talk to somebody when you want to tell them something. A lot of times it's more efficient then email, IMs or other more fancier tools.
- awjr 12y ago"There is nothing wrong to talk to somebody when you want to tell them something. A lot of times it's more efficient then email, IMs or other more fancier tools." For you maybe, for them no. That's not to say you should not talk to them, but your interruption of their workflow has a cost you may not perceive.