Web Development Tips: 10 step plan for working with software engineers

Product / Project Managers

Working with web developers

Ken Norton has crafted a fine tuned guide for coping with the ways of web developers (software engineers) but has finally succumbed to the need to share his experience, and demonstrate a wonderful sense of comic irony.

1. Absorb praise

2. Deflect blame

Remember: there is no “we” in me

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3. Don’t bother with the details

4. Involve them late

5. Add process

Process leads to productivity

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6. Never tell the reasons

7. Commit for them

8. Interrupt at any time

Nothing is more important than whatever you need right now

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9. Be ambiguous

10. They’re always lying

Read the full 10 steps on Ken Norton’s website

Most important!

Read the Afterword!

When Norton isn’t being the best Product Manager in history alongside Steve Jobs and Niccolò Machiavelli he is a group product manager at Google. He joined Google in 2006 with the acquisition of JotSpot, where he was vice president of products. He has a BA from Boston University and an MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a dad to two boys and really likes to ride his bike.

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Sci-Fi Cyberpunk Technology – Today ¦ Wearable Heads-Up Display expands lifestyle options, sneak preview of Project Glass from Google [X]

This is a cool little video providing a visual portrayal of a concept that the smart folks at Google [X] group are working towards bringing into reality. Project Glass.

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It’s not an earth-shattering piece of tech or a stratospherically original concept: i’ve been using it under the name of DVFrames (Data-Vision) in my Sci-Fi Cyberpunk & Dark Fantasy novels since 1996.

But it is great to see the in-life applications of the technology beyond the constraints the Gutenberg galaxy, breaking free from the pages of a piece of written fiction.

If you like this kind of tech then you’ll probably really like the following novels: Dante’s Fool; Iron Man Project; Edge and Dog Eat Dog (post-apocalyptic wilderness survival meets the high-tech of Living Cities).

Positive blurb from Google:

We believe technology should work for you — to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don’t.

A team within our Google[x] group started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment.

Follow along with us at http://g.co/projectglass as we share some of our ideas and stories. We’d love to hear yours, too. What would you like to see from Project Glass?

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