WHY WILL THERE ALWAYS BE A SHORTAGE OF EXPERIENCED MENTORS
A shortage of experienced mentors will always exist. For this reason inexperienced developers will reinvent the wheel and discover many best practices by trial and error. New hirers will learn by doing and receiving information from experienced people. Maples brought important principles from IBM to Microsoft: Standardized hiring practices, nurturing middle managers, cultivate functional expertise, and smooth out internal conflicts between functional areas. Maple other common principles included: let people do their schedules, assume change will happen, manage by milestones, focus on customer problems, and move people around. "It is a common practice for managers to continue doing their functional jobs after becoming senior managers."[Learn More ...]
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