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If you had to communicate ROI for new software engineer/ developer/ programmer to the higher management, how would you do that? Is there a maths to it? I have options like hire a freelancer, hire on contract from an agency or hire a full time developer.

I'm trying to get some metrics on agile adoption, success and failure of projects using agile frameworks. Is there a site that does these analysis and has data?

We are at desperate times where moral values are threatened. More and more people these days say 'That's not my problem', 'I choose to live this way, I don't care about the rest'. In other words we are very individualistic.

I'm not concerned with Donald Trump but the people who think its ok to win at any cost. How can internet / social apps help uplift moral standards of human kind?

I'm at the crossroads. In my current role as software development manager, I wear different hats - sometimes I am project manager, sometimes Business Analyst, sometimes programmer, scrum master, product owner, or just a support guy. What is the next role or progression after Software Development Manager role? How have you all progressed?

I've been a software development manager for more than 2 years now. I used to code more at the beginning then I let me team focus on code, technical aspects as I trust them and mainly I would like them to have the freedom. I sometimes write API code but very basic ones. Most of my day is spent on meetings, support to end users, writing user stories, and some admin tasks like looking for interns, interviewing, sorting out licenses, making sure servers are up and get infrastructure team to look into it, etc etc,

so fast forward 2 yrs I have lost technical sharpness, so I cant be a programmer anymore, I'm not a a BA neither a PM. I champion agile practices in my team but I'm not an agile coach though. At this stage I feel a bit lost. I feel like I'm not good at anything. where do I go from here?

As a internal IT team, our challenge is to have a clean process of request, changes, test and release. However, we have people just coming directly to developers and they want things done immediately. That's good for the users but it just creates a mess. We have hard time tracking who did what and often get ourselves into this loop of fixing things. Once fix breaks another and we are in this cycle since a while and doesn't look like it'll end.

So, would you tell users to work in a different way to fix the development process ? Or would you continue or change current way of development?

I work in a IT department of Construction Company. Most people are project managers / directors / accountants / administrators. Since they dress formally, our IT department follows the formal dress code too. However, I'm not so keen on it and would love to wear something casual. What do you guys wear to work?

We already have a Software Development Manager who looks after very old system and can't handle new technologies like web, devops.

We have a developer who has been handling multiple web projects, implementing new devops technologies, setting standards and helping other developers. He also manages requirement and does sprint planning. We want to give him Software Development Manager title but we already got one and hand to convince top management. What title would be suitable? Has to be manager.

Interested to know the freelancing scenario in Australia, mainly in Melbourne. I'm planning to leave a full time office job to do freelancing. Not sure how to go about finding clients and if it's possible to actually do it full time.