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Regular readers may recall a recent post of mine entitled
"I quit!"
Well, after much deliberation (MUCH deliberation) a great deal of stress, some negotiation and copious quantities of booze - I've changed my mind!
So I am remaining at my current employer - as Software Development Manager (my previous job title was "developer").
My job is now to stop our software being sh*t! improve our processes and procedures and ensure the production of quality, tested software.
Wish me luck!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Good Luck!
Have you got Management Support?
(Or have you got the promise of management support provided you don't change anything?)
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Thanks!
I have support from the top. Whether I have support from the middle remains to be seen.
it is commonly acknowledged that we must change something, as what we have produced over the last three or four years performs poorly, is inconsistent, poorly tested. ill documented, and hard to maintain, and, frankly, works less well than the MS Access product it replaces!
It's time to restore some pride in our work
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On the plus side suicide remains an option.
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Don't do that!
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Maxxx wrote: Software Development Manager
So you quit.
Anyways, good luck. Be a good manager to your team.
Maxxx wrote: Wish me luck!
I wish you luck. 
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Thanks.
One think I will say for my previous management experience, and that is I ended up with extremely loyal teams - teams that would insist on staying late to finish things on time, for example.
It will be harder, as I am changing roles within an existing team (a team that pre-existed my starting), but I'm up for the challenge!
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Right. Well, see you down the funny farm, I guess! 
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Well, I won't be there - but if that's where you hang out ...
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Have they given you a date for your surgery?
Where I work, all engineers that become managers undergo a mandatory operation. They remove your brain, your spine, and if you're male, your 'two best friends'.
The good news is that the removed parts are stored in cryogenic suspension and reattached if you go back to being an engineer. This happened to my (now former) boss, when he reverted to being a developer.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Well, thank you for your support and confidence.
As it happens, I was Software Development Manager & CIO in a previous life - just got fed up with paper-pushing & not having time to get dirty in the code.
This role will be somewhat more hands-on - so less paperwork, less politics (well, one can but hope) and more responsibility for actually getting a good job done!
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Maxxx wrote: less politics
Hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hic...
I hope like hell you become/are a good manager, they are bloody difficult to find and invaluable when they work well.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hic...
yeah - well I live in hope! Been at it long enough I should know better, but hope springs eternal, and all that!
Mycroft Holmes wrote: hope like hell you become/are a good manager, they are bloody difficult to find and invaluable when they work well.
I think I am. Previous staff think I am. Previous company's think I am.
Current company & staff - that remains t be seen!
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Oh, were those your balls I heard being detached? 
Break a leg.
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If that means that you have to manage your development of the same software that you were managing your development of before, but for more money, well done!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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May the Goddess Fortuna smile upon Thee !
cheers, Bill
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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Thanks, Bill.
The Goddess' grin will be much appreciated.
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good luck
you can always get middle mgmt. on side by expressing the changes required in something they'll understand... $$
cr@ppy code == rework, waste, p*ssed off customers
rework ... == money
money == their jobs if they aren't 'on board'
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Personally I like the word "risk"
As in
"We can release these changes untested, if you are prepared to accept the risk.
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1) Make a ToDo list. √
2) Tick off the first item. √
3) Realise I have completed 2 items. √
4) Reward myself for a job well done
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OriginalGriff wrote:
1) Make a ToDo list. √
2) Tick off the first item. √
3) Realise I have completed 2 items. √
4) Reward myself for a job well done
5) Take my meds
FTFY
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
modified 3-Apr-15 9:07am.
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Coder For Hire wrote: OriginalGriff wrote:
0) Take my meds
1) Make a ToDo list. √
2) Tick off the first item. √
3) Realise I have completed 2 items. √
4) Reward myself for a job well done
FTFY
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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That reminds me of writing homework reports.
Put it off until the last few days.
Start writing in fear of being late.
Write title - done for the day, rest till tomorrow. 
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Make a todo list and forget where I put it.
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I would respond to that but I do not remember what we are talking about.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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