给软件开发经理的建议

Advice for Software Development Managers

© Gerald M. Weinberg, 2004 www.geraldmweinberg.com

给软件开发经理的建议

Software Development Magazine recently interviewed Jerry. Here are some of his answers.

软件研发杂志最近采访了Jerry。以下是部分访谈录。

Q: What’s the most important piece of management-related advice anyone has ever given you?

问：你得到的最重要的一条关于管理的建议是什么？

GW: If you blame your employees, you're a bad manager. You hired them, accepted them, supervised them, and directed their training. You’re responsible. If you don't like what's happening, look to your own behavior. But, if there's credit to be given, it's theirs.

温伯格：如果你抱怨你的员工，那么你是一个不善于管理的经理。你雇佣了他们，接受了他们，监督了他们，并指导他们的培训。你是有责任的。如果你不喜欢他们的表现，审视一下你自己的行为。如果项目成功的话，荣誉是他们的。

Q: What about when a manager has been hired into a group where some or all employees were already hired by someone else?

问：另外一种情况是，公司直接引入一位经理管理一个团队，而这个团队的成员已经存在，并不是由这位经理亲自雇佣的，这种情况怎么办？

GW: You don't take a management job passively. Before you accept the position, you interview everyone in your group, and you get them to sign on with you, or you sign them off -- or you don't take the position. I don't know why managers don't understand that. They take on new assignments like high school kids on their first blind date.

温伯格：你并不是被动的承担了这份管理工作。在你接受这个职务之前，你需要与这个团队的每一位成员进行面谈，让他们签约受雇于你，或者解聘他们——再或者，你放弃这个职位。我不知道为什么许多管理者都不理解这个道理。他们接受新任务，就像高中生盲目地去赴他们的第一次约会。

Q: What if an employee begins to exhibit bad behavior after he or she has been hired -- behavior that wasn't apparent in the interview phase?

问：如果员工在他/她受雇后，表现出了在面试阶段并不明显的不好的行为，怎么办？

GW: Well, that happens, and that's what managers get paid for handling. It can be a setback, but it's your job to take care of it and get the job done. Unfortunately, not many technical managers have any preparation for this, something I've been trying to remedy for years -- so in a sense, I'm to blame, because I've succeeded in only a few cases. Hey, if everything went smoothly all the time, you wouldn't need managers.

温伯格：这种事情时有发生，这也是任何一位管理者拿了薪水要处理的事情。坏事可能会成为好事，你有责任认真处理此事。不幸的是，并没有多少技术管理者对此有所准备，让坏事成为好事，这也是我多年来希望能够做到的事情——因此，从某种意义上而言，应该被抱怨的是我，因为我仅仅在不多的几个案例上获得了成功。毕竟，如果每一件事情一直都进展顺利，就不需要什么管理者了。

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