What is the difference between Project Leader and Project Manager?
Are they different terms for the same thing or do they have different roles and responsabilities? ...
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What was your experience with a Lead Programmer Team Structure?
In the 60s and 70s, Harlan Mills of IBM promoted the idea of Lead Programmer teams, which he compared to a surgical team -- a highly trained and talented individual as the person who was actually "hands on the patient" and who was, in turn, supported by others who provided him or her with tools and routine procedures. He contrasted this ...
Moving in to a designer/programmer Leadership Role
I've been working with my manager to move myself from a designer/programmer role in to a lead designer/programmer role. I have several years experience in programming. I've not became that "super" programmer that I've always wanted to be but my manager said that he thought I'd make a good team lead; I’ve since been put in charge of a c...
What do I do when my team leader is breaking my database schema with a release coming up?
My team leader has this terrible habit of mucking with the database schema, and making changes that would cause severe breakage on the code base (without really consulting me on how the changes would affect the code base). Normally, I would just live with it, but we have a deadline in 2 weeks and this has been happening ever since I st...
What is the most important attribute of a project manager/team leader you expect?
Just read Joel on Software - How to be a program manager. In his article he points out different things for a program manager. ...(in fact, with 14 years of programming experience, you might know too much to be a good user advocate ...earn the respect of the programmers so that they concede that you’re right ...It helps, as...
How to motivate as a project leader?
Ok so some of you might think this is not stackoverflow related, but since I got a similar question during an interview (for a J2EE dev position) I think you guys will help me in the end. The situation is simple: you're working on a project in a small group (4-5 people), you're the project leader and the guy who's the most competent (te...