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It's also incredibly important for management to be able to communicate when a team is actually in one of those "200M vs 10M dollar" moments, and when its just
by steveBK123 4y ago
It's also incredibly important for management to be able to communicate when a team is actually in one of those "200M vs 10M dollar" moments, and when its just like.. "well I sorta told a client we'd try and get this in by this arbitrary date I picked."
I've worked for too many managers where either everything, or too many things were urgent too frequently .. without any urgency gradient to differentiate.
- bobwaycott 4y ago> I've worked for too many managers where either everything, or too many things were urgent too frequently .. without any urgency gradient to differentiate. Where I work, we affectionately refer to this as “the dumpster fire” of priorities. I’m lucky that we also work together to both recognize and rectify the dumpster fire blazing out of control.
- Tangurena2 4y agoNo place I have ever worked had a "200M vs 10M dollar" moment. The mismanagers might whistle up a tune that sounded like it, but the bonuses vs no-bonuses only applied to the executives, never to anyone who actually wrote code. The most offensive (to me) was a deadline that government regulations said was 3 years away (EFast2! Due 2009!). The mismanagers involved would not let us start working on meeting those requirements until less than 1 year remained. The product involved went from having 60% market share to under 25%. If they had not been purchased by a large conglomerate, they would have gone out of business from this. All the devs quit. The execs who created the crisis were fired. Some devs were rehired, about half would never go back no matter how much they were paid.