Excellent post by Alex Kjerulf about
the best way to handle your technology team. Geed advice for anyone responsible for
managing a team of developers, or another technical group. In a nutshell, the things not
to do are:
- Downplay training
- Give no recognition
- Plan too much overtime
- Use management-speak
- Try to be smarter than the geeks
- Act inconsitent
- Ignore the geeks
- Make decisions without consulting them
- Don’t give them tools
- Forget that geeks are creative workers
Read the whole post here: Positive
Sharing ? How NOT to lead geeks