I've been asked to join in with a project and there is no actual leader (it's not a business setting), worse still there are about 8 members and because of this, there is no actual action plan. I'd volunteer myself as the leader or manager but I don't have the time or inclination to do so, should I just watch it struggle (and possibly ne...
Our organization is undertaking a re-org to solve our current resource and communications issues. I know, a re-org never solves anything, etc. With that being said, I was tapped to go from an individual contributor (aka tech lead/architect) to leading a team of maintenance developers and analysts. I'm very aware of all of the stigmas as...
Yesterday I had a team leader of another team say that they took a while to figure out something I wrote on a wiki page because I referred to obtaining code from source control as "checking out" which apparently confused them. They said that they were use to Clear Case and had only heard of the term "joining a project" and said that the...
I'm trying to change <Leader> in MacVim to be something less carpal-tunnel inducing. I have added this line let mapleader="," to my .gvimrc, but "\" is still the only key that works. Am I missing something? ...
Hi, How does it work in the market? If possible to generalize, is it a critical point to have a project leader to be a developer himself? If he is not so much in coding, how can he understand what the rest is really talking about. If he is so much good on programming he might have difficulties on leading probably. If you think about t...