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The person who should be doing the "splitting [of] the project into bite-sized chunks" is you! The project manager shouldn't be doing this. I don't think the OP is talking about a situation where the project manager or someone other than the development team is doing this.

Derek Elkins left SE
– Derek Elkins left SE

2017-08-18 07:51:22 +00:00
Commented Aug 18, 2017 at 7:51
@DerekElkins: Yes, of course a developer should do this. But does it make a big difference? I find it hard to be creative when creating a task list or WBS. And I find it hard to be creative when implementing the tasks, no matter who defined them.

Frank Puffer
– Frank Puffer

2017-08-18 08:00:02 +00:00
Commented Aug 18, 2017 at 8:00
@DerekElkins It is not question of who, but why. If manager demands that it is done and uses that to track progress/performance, then that is wrong. If it is done, because developer wants it done to track his own work, then that is fine. Some (or most) developers simply don't need fine-grained time/task tracking to be productive.

Euphoric
– Euphoric

2017-08-18 12:04:41 +00:00
Commented Aug 18, 2017 at 12:04
"leave the day-to-day management to the developers themselves": Joel described this management style once as "moving the furniture out of the way, so people can concentrate on their work"

Murphy
– Murphy

2017-10-18 13:11:48 +00:00
Commented Oct 18, 2017 at 13:11

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