On 2010-11-13, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Have you ever managed a programming team before? >>> >>> I haven't. ?Any pointers? >> >> Not really. ?Just be prepared for the programmers to misunderstand the >> specification at every turn. ?And once they've understood the spec, be >> prepared for them to just plain screw up the implementation.
>> [elided carpentry allegory] > Great advice from everyone, thank you. By hiring coders, the > intention is to save myself time and effort but it sounds like I would > only be replacing one problem with another. I hope I wasn't too discouraging, but you're definitely replacing one problem with another. The questions are: 1) The relative sizes of the problems? 2) How much your time is worth? 3) Do you prefer spec-writing and project management or writing code? For me, I'd probably rather take a week off my without pay from my day jobs and write the code myself rather than pay somebody else $2000 to do it. [And that's assuming I could find somebody competent to work for $50/hour.] > I'm really not sure how to proceed but you guys have saved me from > hurling myself into something I didn't understand. I don't know what language you're using, but my only other recommendation might be to consider using a high level language like Python instead of C. Developing a large application in Python instead of C can save huge amounts of time. My guess would be that on average Python development takes about 25% of the time that C would take. -- Grant
