Hello everybody!
Great posts and comments, I too would like to initiate the thread where it would be great to share some of the development and management experience.
Some of the major statements that we’re building our typical development day structure around are:
- There are limited types of tasks in development
- Pure-coding time a day usually is not more than 4-6 hours a day
- In order for people not to use Internet in-office for off-development needs, at the same time exchange experience and share experience between each other, also in order to protect intellectual property of project being development and not allow code leaking some specific activities and techniques need to be in the IT companies that I’ll be describing
I’ll be commenting and adding several times a week, so please feel free to look into this thread if anybody is interested.
See you all later!
Oleg
This is great! I can’t wait to read and learn more about things in the Russia office. Blake
Its interesting to know that pure coding time is limited to 4-6 hours a day. While that’s a lot of time, it probably is less than many programmers who spend all night coding things which keeps you efficient and productive I imagine.
Thank you for quick commenting on above! It could sound really new or even small amount of hours, breaking some stereotypes, so please take some more time to look more inside things more inside the kitchen:
The coding time isn’t limited to 4-6 a day, it is based on what I actually see programmers can usually do every day, sometimes it more, sometimes it less, however it is what it is in the average. I just have been sitting to a lot of them for a several years - it’s based on what I see and on what honest tru expert developers admit as they don’t need to proove that they aren’t lazy and can start to say the truth. Most of the junior or average developers will try to though say they can do more and they probably will be able to for several days, however when it would come to average time of efficient coding - this amount of 4-6 hours a day will come into place that they can do.
Please note that as I mentioned above types of tasks can be different, this 4-6 hours is for smart-coding time when you actually need to think about what you’re doing. If you’re doing some really plain programming, and it’s more of replication and robot-type of work or even include HTML-coding, it’s surely can vary. I’ll be talking more about the type of tasks also later on.
Thank you,
Oleg