Speaking as a developer, when a PM gets in the way when I am trying to gather requirements, it's an epic fail.
The most natural way for a manager to work with developers is as a facilitator. If you do your tyrant thing, we developers will turn our…
Yep!
Agile is all about empowerment in my opinion. If you empower people in the software industry, you get up to 10x productivity gains. And because it's a natural process, it makes writing software more fun.
BTW, Agile as an empowerment tool work…
Database Administrator, Developer: Applications, Developer: Client/Server, Developer: Systems, IT Management CEO - CIO - CTO - VP - Dir, IT Management - Strategist or Architect, Project Manager, Software Engineer, Web Designer, Web Developer/Programmer
What are your areas of expertise? (technologies, methodologies, tools etc.)
Areas of expertise include:
Agile Project Management (I also wrote a tool called Hatch that delivers Agile PM over the Web), ASP.NET web development, CRM, data modelling, actuarial tool development, grid computing, option pricing.
I also developed the following products that are currently selling:
Hatch (Agile Project Management Tool over the Web),
Gab (Asp.NET web part and Windows application that allows web site owners to chat with customers),
Chainmail (tool that quickly finds e-mail addresses from web sites)
Currently working on launching a dating web site.
Tell Tech Pro Motivation Project Members something about yourself:
Jonathan Starr is an Application Architect in Saint Louis, MO. He holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and earned his MCSD from Microsoft.
Thanks for joining ... you are officially the first member since I launched this network today. I am looking forward to your insightful posts on motivation! I also welcome any ideas you may have to improve this network. Cheers.