CHAPTER EIGHT
Project Resources
The Science Behind Herding Cats
Hiring the Wrong Project Managers
I’m rarely more shocked than when I see who gets hired as project managers. The following steps outline a typical scenario for selection of a project manager for a large, mission-critical software application.
• After much thought, a job announcement is created. The company decides to look for someone who has managed large software development projects in the past.
• The announcement is submitted to recruitment organizations, which review applications and narrow down the choices to several applications from software development managers or lead developers who, in their opinion, managed development projects in the past. These applications are ...
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