I need ‘lazy’ developers
It is the gif I can recruit the 'lazy' developers and I want to build the company not have much people (some of them are unproductive) but I expect almost my developers are 'lazy' ones. Many times, I reviewed code from developers and they actually write the bad code, the reasons are 'lack of time, lack of skills, lack of training, tight schedule, pressure from clients and managers etc' but my conclusion is they are not the 'lazy' developers. Of course, 'lazy' developers are not mean they do not want to work but they want to work less time but achieve big values, all people understand that any part of program is not written in one time but it is modified many times and cost for maintenance (fix bug, enhance features etc) is greater than development cost many times. Non-lazy developers do the opposite approach, they write program as if their program can run immediately and not modify later, very poor code (and they have reasons for bad code quality) but they (or their colleagues) will spend much time for fixing defects later. In their job, lazy developers will try the job at their best, active to seek solutions to improve their works and their productivity. Instead of spending 10 hours for coding, lazy developers can research, think and learn 2 hours and they only work in 4 hours to complete their jobs. They do not complain as non-lazy developers, who are in rush of coding, coding without thinking whether they can do better, non-lazy developers complains why they work so hard, why I must work overtime when the lazy developers have free time. Just the style of working can improve your productivity, in many times I see the non-lazy developers are clever than lazy developers but they are less productive.
In the project has both lazy developers and non-lazy developers, project managers usually do the wrong thing that assigns the lazy developers more jobs to share workload with the non-lazy ones, that causes all people tend to become the non-lazy ones. In this case, project manager should motivate people become to the lazy developers, it is an art!
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I agree!
Get you project managers to be lazy!
By advocating being a ‘lazy’ project manager I do not intend that we should all do absolutely nothing. I am not saying we should all sit around drinking coffee, reading the good book and engaging in idle gossip whilst watching the project hours go by and the non-delivered project milestones disappear over the horizon. That would obviously be plain stupid and would result in an extremely short career in project management, in fact probably a very short career full stop!
Lazy does not mean Stupid.
No I really mean that we should all adopt a more focused approach to project management and to exercise our efforts where it really matters, rather than rushing around like busy, busy bees involving ourselves in unimportant, non-critical activities that others can better address, or indeed that do not need addressing at all in some cases.
Welcome to the home of ‘Productive Laziness’.
On the following pages you can read more about what I mean about productive laziness and how you can apply these simple techniques and approaches in your own projects. The major project topics will be covered but from a ‘Productive Lazy’ point of view.
I am not, by nature, a lazy person but I do have many other things to do in life, beyond the projects and programs that I manage, and therefore I have learnt the manner in which to balance life, projects and work. What I am though, also by nature, is success orientated and therefore the balanced approach that I utilise has to also ensure that both my projects and my career are successful and that they leave me with sufficient time for home and family.
Lazy does not mean Unsuccessful.
I am a Lazy Project Manager. You can carry on as you are or you can join me in the comfy chair of life and still get the project results you and your sponsors demand.
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.
Sandra, thank you for your nice comment
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