Forgot your password?  Comment: Re:Aging workforce (Score 3,
Interesting) 629  by Panaflex (#45536815) Attached to: Ask
Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early?  I
disagree. Having worked in everything from multinational
companies to 3 man start-up companies I think I've seen quite a
bit of the dev world.  I think a well balanced team usually
consists of older and younger developers myself.  What you want
to avoid as a manager is encouraging cliques and age-based group
stratums. Socially people will naturally tend to separate by age
somewhat, but by spreading your experienced devs in with the
less experienced you create new niches and groups that center
around productive aspects such as projects, platforms, and
responsibilities.  A few tricks I've used is allow developers to
volunteer for project milestones. This gives you good cross-
communication setup between project and age groups and allows
devs to find their fit if you structure your projects right.
Another trick is to encourage creativit