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How to structure a development team

I am the manager of a team of 11 software developers who look after my company’s web sites / web applications, running up to 4 concurrent projects plus day-to-day support at any time. Within the 11 developers there is a mixture of technical skills, job titles and experience, although the team structure is flat with all 11 developers reporting directly to me.

What’s a good model for continuous manager programmer feedback?

Is it important for managers to give devs regular feedback on how they’re doing and vice versa? I say vice versa because I consider employees to be responsible to their manager, and managers to be responsible to their employees. Everyone seems to think this is a good idea but in practice I rarely see it happen because so many shops are “agile” now and that usually means a daily standup plus a weekly kickoff, etc. So one-on-ones just don’t happen.

Why do exclusively outsourcing projects as a company? [closed]

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Does a mature agile team requires any management?

After a recent heated debate over Scrum, I realized my problem is that I think of management as a quite unnecessary and redundant activity in a fully agile team. I believe a mature Agile team does not require management or any non-technical decision making process whatsoever. To my (apparently erring) eyes it is more than obvious that the only one suitable and capable of managing a mature development team is their coach (who is the most technically competent colleague with proper communication skills). I can’t imagine how a Scrum master can contribute to such a team.

Developing web sites that imitate desktop apps. How to fight that paradigm? [closed]

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