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Hafiz asks:

I am a Web application developer, also responsible for project management. I occasionally manage remote developers, who work for me under a contract basis. Sometimes, this can prove very difficult. A few challenges I have encountered:

• Once, a developer went incommunicado for two days while we had to deliver a project.
• Once, a developer templated a CMS with static solution.
• Once, I asked a developer to complete search functionality and the next day he said he’d done it. But when I looked, it wasn’t done. He completed the search but not search result listing formatting.

Am I working with the wrong people? Or is my management style the problem?

Thanks in advance.
via ars technica

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