A little bit of a strage topic I have to admit but how do you deal with having some people on your team that: Never listen to others ideas Don't preform ect I am a fairly new to working in groups and have already learned to deal with different personalities and attitudes, How do you do it? ...
This is a sensitive question, hence I post this anonymously. Over the last year, I have been working as the senior programmer for a group of existing and new scripters. This group is lead by a separate lead. I am the programmer of the code's script interface the script programmers work with. One of the new guys has caused me countless h...
We are 4 mates that founded a company a year ago. A: high skill, works a lot (the architect) B: low skill, high motivation, works even more (the motivator) C: high skill, works only 5-15h a week (the admin) D: low skill, high motivation, works about 10h a week (the helping hand) We had only projects with fixed payments, that were spl...
I'm currently hired on a temporary basis at a company to help out with some low-level integration with certain IM services. Their current programmers are all C# programmers relying heavily on that framework, without a lot of knowledge about low-level concepts like the Win32 API, pointers, assembly, and the likes. They hired me because I'...
This is more of a business-oriented programming question that I can't seem to figure out how to resolve. I work with a team of programmers who have been working with BASIC for over 20 years. I was brought in to help write the same software in .NET, only with updates and modern practices. The problem is that I can't seem to get any of ...
background:Me and my coworkers are working on asp.net mvc project ... we have a computer that works as a server which is where the project will be stored on... each of us has a copy of the project and we got tortoise cvs set up. questions: when you want to commit something, what files exactly do you commit?.. asp.net reports many dll fi...
Over the past few months, the behaviour of the guy who sits opposite me has really started to piss me off, and I am thinking of getting a new job as a result. What survival strategies can I adopt so that I can stay productive and motivated, and just survive having to work near this guy. The individual in question rolls in about 9:50 eac...
There's a person in management on my team, that: Doesn't ask questions on Stack Overflow. Doesn't read development blogs. Doesn't use development best practices. This person is about to make some major decisions about the technology stack that will be used throughout the company. (I asked him what the technology stack was they were ...
I have a co-worker who refuses to take advice on a solution to a problem. I think he will eventually get there however the solution will be far more complex than it needs to be. He is the lone warrior type, and get's passive aggressive when you try to give him advice. Do I just let him use the more complex solution which will take more...