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Establishing process and product standards on a technical team

Establishing process and product standards on a technical team

From the course: Managing and Working with a Technical Team for Nontechnical Professionals

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Establishing process and product standards on a technical team

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- Now, here is a place where you have an opportunity to start having an impact on your technical team. It's been my personal experience that many tech groups are very results driven. They want the job to get done and that's a good thing. However, as a corollary to that, they tend to be more concerned with getting work done, not necessarily how it gets done, so you'll sometimes get situations where different team members are using different methods to solve the same or similar issues. Likewise, and I'm generalizing again, technical folks often have a tendency to want an elegant solution to a problem. Now, this may take some extra time to develop. Hey, they think, it's okay if it's a little late if it's a lot better, right? Well, that's not actually false, but the problem is how much later are you talking about and what else is dependent to this work and will now also be late. There is a bigger picture that people in the trenches don't necessarily think about. A good manager can really…

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