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Your manager asked for ideas and you had one but didn't submit it. If you look at your manager's words (as you have described them), you can see one thing that
by loumf 12y ago
Your manager asked for ideas and you had one but didn't submit it. If you look at your manager's words (as you have described them), you can see one thing that he wanted, but your method doesn't provide: Assessment. Figure out how to add a way for them to know that you know Laravel and I am sure that they will approve it.
Read "Peopleware" and "Mythical Man Month", as they are the seminal works on programming as it relates to the people doing the work, and a lot of what was written after will assume you know about them already.
Joel Spolsky has written tons on tech management, for example: http://avc.com/2012/02/the-management-team-guest-post-from-joel-spolsky/ http://avc.com/2012/02/the-management-team-guest-post-from-j...
But you can find a lot of gems on his site.
- dandare 12y agoI personally find Peopleware outdated. Maybe the general ideas still hold but there is little useful details that are still relevant after 25 years.
- loumf 12y agoSome of the insights/recommendations from Peopleware * Programmers work better in quiet * Companies should not let facilities management design office spaces for programmers (with guidelines on a recommended office layout) * Make a promotion path to a "Free Electron" -- a programmer trusted to find important work in the company and do it (unattached to a team) * Programmers should now work in a semi-distracted state (open social media/IM) * Get rid of telephones on programmer desks I reread it last year and I was mostly thinking that it must be frustrating to work somewhere where management isn't influenced by Peopleware.
- loumf 12y agoThat should be "should NOT work in a semi-distracted state"