Management

Manager Mathematics

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I had my first taste of management when I worked at Argonaut (long time ago) and because Jez San (the owner) believed in promoting from within the company he felt that it would be a good idea to get […]

16Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 2 comments | Continued

What motivates programmers?

I will start with a question, if you have a spare £400 in your development budget do you A) Reward your star programmer with a £400 bonus or B) Buy him a 24 Inch 1920×1200 LCD screen?
If you answered ‘A’ then you need to read on. If you answered ‘B’ then you understand what motivates […]

11Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 129 comments | Continued

Preparation

We have two new staff members joining Assembleron on Monday and I have been extremely busy getting lots of things ready. On a mundane front this has meant things like contracts, keys and swipe cards to organize. On a development front this has meant seriously getting my house in order. This means making sure phpDocumentor […]

28Jun2007 | Nick Halstead | 6 comments | Continued

Why Recruitment Agencies have Append only Databases

I wanted to cover an interesting aspect of recruitment agencies. They are unique in the world in that they have databases that are ‘append only’. What do I mean? Well after I recruited a programmer several years back he told all the agencies he had been using that he had taken a job and not […]

17Jun2007 | Nick Halstead | 4 comments | Continued

Programming and Managing - Can you do both?

I have been getting quite a few emails recently asking me to post about certain topics. So today I start answering them.
Brendan Barber asks “I am a software development manager for a global recruitment firm. I was wondering if you have any blogs about how to juggle team leadership / management with programming tasks. I […]

8Jun2007 | Nick Halstead | 8 comments | Continued

Interviewing programmers 101 - Part 2

In my first article I covered the actual interview process. In this next part I now take a step back and look at how you find the most talented programmers when you have hundreds of CV’s and you don’t want to interview them all.
How to start
Once you start receiving CV’s from candidates either from […]

21May2007 | Nick Halstead | 9 comments | Continued
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