| ??? 02/08/07 01:27 Read: times |
#132285 - no ... not quite ... Responding to: ???'s previous message |
You guys think this is a mega-corp. It's not!
Rob Vassar said:
Craig Steiner said:
Some things I can do with someone running a jack hammer in the background. But when there's a tricky problem, I need to be able to concentrate. Somewhere to close the door and block out all the sound is absolutely necessary and has nothing to do with hiding anything. Sheesh. One thing I have not be able to get thru to my wife of 11 years... When a person is coding, there's a couple thousand things floating around in their mind. Language structure, personal & system API's, style rules (you asm guys probably don't see to much of this... :-), variable scope and values, etc... Humans don't have a stack. Interruptions cost me dearly. I can do test execution in a high interrupt environment, but not test development. So I understand Richard's premise about phone calls, but I could never submit to his micro management. It's a form of management laziness, and poor substitute for measurement of progress and results. But hey... Some people think yelling has a place in business too. I've been known to get up and leave meetings when people start yelling. They can come talk to me when they're calm and unemotional. I wouldn't call it micromanagement. I give a guy a task, we discuss it, and some time later, he comes around with his finished work product. He doesn't have to do it here, so if he wants music or to wash his clothes, or talk to his broker, at a given time, it's up to him. If he misses a delivery, though, he's out. I've not lost a guy for that in the past decade, so I must be choosing well. One guy's been with me since 1980. RE |
