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-Other than leaving the company, what else would you suggest that I do to make upper level management see the insanity of having 1:1 manager to developer ratio?
by iamdave 16y ago
-Other than leaving the company, what else would you suggest that I do to make upper level management see the insanity of having 1:1 manager to developer ratio?
Become an expert in your department in change management. This sounds like the biggest thing holding your teams back, just from what you've described. Mind your p's and q's with change management, adopt it at the core level and push for it as hard as you can without stepping on toes and I think you'll see that ratio start to widen.
- mannylee1 16y agoAt the core I am a developer. It is possible for me to become knowledgeable in change management and make the switch to management, but I would rather leave the company before doing so. Thanks for the suggestion though, anything helps.
- iamdave 16y agoI understand. I recently made a similar decision to depart from the company I'm with now for familiar reasons. Not that we had entirely too much human overhead, but because projects were never getting done, planning was a mess and...well I got a much better offer :) Good luck, friend.
- petervandijck 16y agoThere is nothing you can do to make management decide that they should cut a large number of jobs. Seriously. Some things just can't be changed from the bottom up, this kind of thing (where you'd be taking away people's jobs) needs to come from the top down.