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Most of answers here focus around management as a general topic and ways to handle the two weaker devs. Nobody recommends to fire them. I am also not giving thi
by bonn1 12y ago
Most of answers here focus around management as a general topic and ways to handle the two weaker devs. Nobody recommends to fire them. I am also not giving this advice because I am not aware about the entire company and team situation and can't oversee all implications. And maybe you might be the problem for the two weaker devs.
I just know that the most important management skill is 1) to make the decision to fire somebody and to do this not too late and 2) then to execute it smooth and fast. And most managers are neither good at 1 or at 2 because of lacking practice.
It's a though decision, it doesn't feel good to fire somebody and often managers ask themselves if they made mistakes in their leadership.
But if you say that you just don't feel good how they do their work and if you don't see any potential for improvement then why don't you spend the budget for better engineers?
- sukilot 12y agoPresumably if OP could find better engineers, he would. In the mean time, make better developers.
- gclaramunt 12y agoI would argue that the most important management skill is herd people to "get sh*t done", being skilled in firing people won't save your ass if you don't deliver