Group Management: a vital part for your job!
Sometimes I get stuck about how many risks a work can get into when the Group Management is something more Abstract than Real!
Many errors ago I wasn’t aware of what being a “Project Manager” means, but now, after too many wrong turns I have understood that it is a vital part for a company, and that the creation of Rules and a strict People management is the solution to keep your work healty!
This december will be a “Full Month”, because I will have to do an entire application in zero-time, putting all my efforts to help a group of my friends to focus on the problematics and finish the work as soon and better as they can.
Of course there is no Gant chart to support me, no clear specification and a great fragmentation of the coding. Now, the long meetings didn’t help enough, because now the target is to jump over all the useless things and go straight to the solution, reusing some code and helping one each other. Frippery and finery must be left away: now there is space only for the strictly necessay and nothing more!
Obviously it would have been better if this things would have been started two months ago, planning everything with a lot of care about the people, about the details, but it hasn’t been done, and so there is the need to shrink the time, to separate perfectly everyone’s goals, defining the common point to be able to work in parallel.
This time has shown me the importance of a “Leader” that holds the keys of every project, that coordinates the different people and that must play the role of the “Know-All-Man” for what the others are working for!
The first document that I read about the Management was a document about the Software Engineering Practices for large-scale web projects, that helped me a lot understanding some important points in the projects lifeline.
Of course I still have a lot to learn, but being a “Learn By Example” man, I feel that sometimes we can look at the others, “stealing” them their good tecniques and working to avoid their error.
From that reading I’d lite to cite a phrase that helped me a LOT:
Don’t Shoot the… “4 Guys”: Keep those guys happy and you’ll ship, Shoot them and you’ll Die!
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