Every team has its fault lines, a divide where multiple faults come together. If you live near the fault line you know it exists. The further you get away from it, the less important it seems or the potential for harm exists because it is “over there” and not near you. At any point in time, it’s the role of the Dev Manager to know what faults will trigger these lines to break and fall…
No one should ever be part of a call that is delivered in this fashion. Your company should have all the breakers in place to ensure this never happens. Hopefully the last of these we ever hear of, but here’s our take on Remotely Prepared – https://www.upsidedownoffice.com/podcast/this-weeks-3-minute-mass-zoom-firing And here is one of many articles that references this debacle. All I can say, is something of this magnitude should never be phoned in, and this is what…
Perhaps it’s time to try something different, something off the beaten path when nothing else has been working? What else do you have to lose when you’re stuck with nowhere to go?
What matters most to you? Is it how much you earn? What do you do with those earnings? How many pull requests you can handle in a day? How many deployments do you do in a month? How many people are on your team? This list can go on and on forever, but what really matters is knowing what metrics matter to you the most. If you sell software it’s either about users, subscriptions, warranties,…
Apparently, we are currently in the midst of the Great Resignation where people are quitting their jobs in droves because they are fed up, exhausted, burnt out and ready to follow what matters to them most. I realize the word resignation is being used in the context of “resigning” one’s job and not in the context of “with great resignation”. The thing about the Great Resignation is that if all these people are quitting to…