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Effective team meetings
I'm a team leader of a team of 8 programmers in a company of about 20 technical people. They're working on a range of projects, these projects also involve people from other teams that are outside of ...
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How to create high quality code producing teams? (as a group leader)
I come with a clear agenda on how to code correctly. I used to be a team leader, and I managed using significant amount of mentoring to create a team that creates high quality code.
Now I have 3 ...
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How to tell whether your programmers are under-performing?
I am a team lead with 5+ developers. I have a developer (let's call him A) who is a good programmer, who writes good clean, easy to understand code. However he is somewhat difficult to manage, and ...
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How to deal with a poor team leader and a tester manager from hell? [closed]
Let me begin by explaining my situation and give a little context to the situation. My company has around 15 developers but we're split up on two different areas. We have a fresh product team and the ...
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How to manage a developer who has poor communication skills
I manage a small team of developers on an application which is in the mid-point of its lifecycle, within a big firm. This unfortunately means there is commonly a 30/70 split of Programming tasks to ...
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Developer to team leader
How much experience is considered enough for a developer to become a team leader?
For IT managment what is the measure to check if the current team member is good enough to become a team leader ...
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What you should do if your junior did not adopt your suggestion? [closed]
I am leading a team of 3-4 junior developers. My job-- besides writing code-- is to provide supervision and guidance for the juniors.
But, I fully understand how much developers cherish autonomy in ...
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5answers
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How to deal with Project Leader who doesn't involve himself in project in any way? [closed]
Our division is a small offshore development-only unit (not more than 25 members) but we develop many projects. Our main focus is development. Developers are grouped under Project Leaders, and they in ...
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How to manage a developer with good knowledge of programming language but very poor analytical skills
I work as a team lead in a fast-growing services company. There is one developer in my team who's not performing well, and unable to solve even the simplest of the problems without being spoon-fed.
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What are the main things a programmer expects from the senior programmer?
Recently I read the following 5 Types Of Bosses and How To Deal With Them
, which describes the attires of the worst boss. I've just started leading a small team of software developers.
I would like ...
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3answers
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Strategic and Tactical direction for IT teams
In their influential team leadership book, "Peopleware", DeMarco and Lister suggest that managers should provide "strategic but not tactical direction" for their IT teams.
This is intriguing, but ...
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Which management book would you recommend to read for a fresh Team Leader? [closed]
Which management book would you recommend to read for a fresh Team Leader?
