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I always like to observe people who want quick results reading about agile or OKRs or KPIs and then handsomely shooting themselves into foot. Other fun thing i
by ozim 2y ago
I always like to observe people who want quick results reading about agile or OKRs or KPIs and then handsomely shooting themselves into foot.
Other fun thing is having management mandate those things and people who don’t have time to understand all that stuff implement it.
Worst one is having ambitious young people thinking if they push for implementing those things they will be „real professionals” - that is how dev teams go to crawl enforcing all BS rules and product teams bikeshedding OKRs instead of delivering stuff.
- throwawaysleep 2y agoThe need for “impact” in performance evaluations is also the cause of a lot of bike shedding. I had a meeting the other day where my manager sent our team and told us to “be visible so we have something to report for year end about broader impact.” We basically disrupted a meeting with poorly thought out commentary to put “cross pollination” on our self summaries.
- ibejoeb 2y ago>ambitious young people thinking if they push for implementing those things they will be „real professionals” This is a real problem. It can destroy a successful operation. I don't specifically want to blame "young" or any other particular attribute, but it's common in that ambitious corporate type. Hiring managers, especially in startups, should really think about a newcomer's background. If someone comes from services where the name of the game is billable hours, it is going to be ingrained that there are processes that exist to justify those hours. That fails when your client is your company.