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Being hands off works fine when the team is working well and the goal is clear. The problem becomes when the proverbial hits the fan and you suddenly realise yo
by danieltillett 11y ago
Being hands off works fine when the team is working well and the goal is clear. The problem becomes when the proverbial hits the fan and you suddenly realise you have no real idea what your team members think, who likes who, what their likes and dislikes are, and what their skills are outside of your recent history. The only way to learn all this is to spend time with people getting to know them and them getting to know you so they trust you when you need their support.
- cableshaft 11y agoFair enough. There was a decent amount of social back and forth at that company also, and we went to lunches a couple times a week, so I had a pretty good feeling for their abilities. We mostly stayed on top of things and never really had a crisis moment, though, because we had a boss that would talk to the client and "manage his expectations" since he made so many ridiculous claims and demands anyway (inventing features he never discussed with us and wondering why it wasn't in the builds yet, asking for things that were pretty much impossible and thinking it could be done in a couple of weeks, changing the entire direction of the project based on an article he read the night before, etc.)