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Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 16:14:10 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: Brian Stark <brian.stark@onstor.com>
Subject: first thoughts after our chat today
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Things I'd want to do to make it all work:

Regular access to Ed Franck and maybe Mike Dove for advice and sounding
board purposes.

Meetings:

Two new software dev meetings including Jonathon: 10am Tuesday and
Thurs.  15-30 minutes, only about bug status updates and information.
Attendance required whether or not you have a bug on the MF list.  Pre
meeting with Jobi and Tim at 9.30 to prepare.

Renew old weekly Software Dev meeting where company news and information
is disseminated, and other software dev issues are discussed, which can
then be fed back to upper management layers.

Larry reports to me: no more of the Larry/Tim show distracting and
detracting.

No interference on personell decisions: I get the job done to the
satisfaction of my bosses or take the job away.  If someone isn't
contributing the way I think they should, I need to be able to handle
that -- no shelter for special individuals.  Assuming I'm not a madman
who tends to go on irrational firing sprees.  Which I'm not.  I
wouldn't do that.  Generally I view termination as the resort after the
last resort.

Bill:  Thinking back on all my interactions with Bill, he seems like a
reliable and rational individual, and nothing in the interactions I've
had with him so far suggest to me that he's not manageable. Hopefully
it's merely a matter of the right technique.

That's it for now.  Oh yeah, there's also my "Initial Plan" which I
wrote a long time ago and hasn't been updated in a while, at

http://ripper.onstor.net/eng/org/eng-initial-plan.html

Fluffy high level stuff, in case anyone cares.  Really meant for the
world after cougar if I remember correctly.

Cheers,

a
