[ryandrake]

This is a great list, however I'm a little puzzled at:

> Also, another sign of being in the presence of one of the lazy PMs is to constantly receive mails from them, and rarely a call or a face-to-face conversation, because the lazy PMs don’t want to move too much and go to the team to discuss about the project status or discuss about how they can help the team.

I thought the standard complaint from engineering is always "Don't interrupt me in Code Mode for a face to face conversation or phone call! It'll take me 30 minutes just to get back into The Zone!"

The way I like to operate is: If I need an answer on something within time period N, I'll send an E-mail first. Then I'll wait Nx0.5 and then drop by your office. If you're not there or look busy [1], I'll wait another Nx0.25 and then try again. I'll only resort to interruption or a phone call if it's super-urgent or we get too close to N for comfort.

1: Busy = headphones on, developer IDE is open. Busy != Facebooking or talking about yesterday's Game Of Thrones episode

EDIT: Apparently the asterisk mark causes italics on HN

[Mind_of_AC]

of course we don't want to interrupt all the time the developers, but we should try to encourage conversation within the team, usually mails can be misunderstood or misinterpreted. If it is possible, we should try to talk more :)