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New Article: Why Expectations Can Kill You and What You Can Do About It

Managing Software Developers, Software Development

“A new developer quits after two weeks. A three-year veteran leaves the company after receiving a 5% raise at his annual review. A project is delivered according to developer estimates but the project manager is fired. An application is built to approved specifications but the client is unhappy. What do all of these situations have in common?

Expectations.”

Read the rest of the article here.

September 12th, 2005 | Managing Software Developers, Software Development

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