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January 3, 2003 at 12:32 PM
oraclekid

Managing “Veteran” Developers

by oraclekid . Updated 23 years, 5 months ago

I’m hoping that some of the experienced development managers out there might be able to offer some advice. As a fairly young and fairly new dev manager, I find it difficult at times to manage one of our “veteran” developers. This developer is veryintelligent and has many years of experience (many more than myself) but tends to work in a vacuum and can over-engineer solutions. I appreciate the experience and effort that is brought to the table by this developer, but results (i.e. completed projects) are what matter to my management. For those of you who might have been in a similar situation before, would you have any suggestions on how I can “bring in the reigns” (to improve the quality and the perceived productivity of this developer)?

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