Lazy Writing Strikes Yet Again!

Not even remotely qualified for this position, but I liked this line Fosters a culture of continuous improvement – promotes learning, code review, deployment, etc. so much I had to capture it on my blog. I like the idea behind it - that continuous improvement of employees is important.

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Manager of Software Development QC
Job Locations US-IA-Coralville
Overview

The Manager of Software Development is responsible for supervising the software development staff for manufacturing. This position oversees a team of developers who design, develop, maintain and support software related to manufacturing. This position requires close interaction with manufacturing leadership, project management, support, architecture, other software development groups and QA teams.
Responsibilities
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Essential Functions:

• Supervises and directs the Software Development staff which would include employee hiring, training, evaluations and discipline.
• Mentors and grows passionate individuals who work well in strong teams
• Fosters a culture of continuous improvement – promotes learning, code review, deployment, etc.
• Manages and adjusts the structure of the development teams as needed
• Plans, executes and controls a project, establishes estimates, schedules and resource planning as well as providing status and reports to management.
• Coordinates weekly priorities for developers and monitors the execution of assignments
• Collaborates cooperatively with other programmers, designers and business users.
• Understands the design and overall architecture of manufacturing related software.
• Stays up to date with the industry.
• Writes reports and documentation as need.
• Demonstrates and upholds behavior consistent with the Integrated DNA Technologies Core Values and delivers the Integrated DNA Technologies experience to customers and other business associates.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Professional Experience:

• Minimum of five years of experience programming required.
• Prior database experience required.
• Prior experience leading a group of software developers preferred.
• C# experience preferred.
• Background in manufacturing or supply chain preferred.

Other Job Qualifications

• Strong leader, capable of motivating the very best software engineers
• Knowledge of source controls system and code promotion
• Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment technologies
• Knowledge of web services and integrated systems
• Knowledge of ORM (Entity Framework), message bus (Rabbit MQ)
• Knowledge of Project Management and various development methodologies, Agile in particular
• Adaptability to perform under stress when confronted with emergent, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or situation in which working speed and sustained attention are make-or-break aspects of the job.
• Adaptability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another without loss of efficiency or composure.
• Ability to maintain both a high standard of courtesy and cooperation in dealing with co-workers.
• Ability to accept responsibility for the direction, control or planning of an activity.

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I have a secondary reason for including the above job description. I noticed 17 of 28 of the bullet items above have a period at the end of the line. For example, these lines:

• Supervises and directs the Software Development staff which would include employee hiring, training, evaluations and discipline.
• Mentors and grows passionate individuals who work well in strong teams

Why is that? The first line ends with a bullet but the very next line does not. They are constructed the same, as in [("Verb") + ("Verb")] + [(subject)] so it's not because of the construction of the phrase. I vote lazy writing as the cause!