Ask YC: Programmers fatigue and their output
Hello All,
I would urge you all to go through one typical situation my team and I are going under. As a project manager or co-founder of the company I have to find solution to this so that it does not happen again and I think YC may be able to help me in this.<p>We are developing one unique project for our client. Project is very well documented and does have some complexity. We chose CakePHP as a framework to develop the solution.<p>Now initially things went smooth and we developed admin section pretty good.<p>But somehow since last couple of months performance has degraded considerably. These are the same programmers who had developed backend and now they are facing sever issues in developing frontend.<p>Situation is so worse that they are not even able to complete simple CRUD operation easily. As a project manager I fail to understand this situation.<p>I also tried releasing off the pressure and giving them free hand to complete tasks as they wish but to no avail.<p>Some senior members are of the opinion that I should not release pressure because then developers do not complete things in time.<p>I am fortunate to have a cooperative client and he is not making any fuss about it but I am ashamed of our output.<p>Mind well these programmers are not fresh out of college but they do have couple of years of experience.<p>Have you faced any situation like this before? What are my options here?<p>Should I consider changing the team? Should I introduce fresh people who are not crumbled under expectations?<p>PS: joel, jeff are you listening? i would be glad if you guys can help too :)