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> Thanks for clarifying, but I think this "management guidance" is where I
> disagree with you.
>
> I agree that management has a place in providing project leadership. I
> don't agree, however, that management "guidance" is the best thing to turn
> a close-mouthed developer (or any SME) into a more "suitably
> collaborative" one. My experience with management "guiding" unresponsive
> developers to the promised land of mutual collaboration hasn't been
> pretty, and it always has set up a negative feedback loop that gets harder
> and harder to penetrate as time goes on. I guess I'm looking at this more
> as an interpersonal, relationship issue -- not a business or management
> issue. And my preference for interpersonal issues is to work it out
> directly with the other person, without involving a third-party. The
> developers I've worked with that way (so far) have appreciated that, as
> have management.
>
I'm suggesting that collaboration should be part of a developer's job. I'm
also not talking about the big boys upstairs when I say "management". I'm
talking about the doc manager only.
As I see it, it's an issue related to the job responsibilities of developers.
It's simply part of the job.
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