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One of the members of the team is barely doing anything and survives by constantly asking others to help with doing the job. This reducea productivity of other
by rvba 2y ago
One of the members of the team is barely doing anything and survives by constantly asking others to help with doing the job. This reducea productivity of other employees.
A known archetype in many jobs, not only programming.
Yet we get comments like this:
> you don´t have the necessary competence to validate your suspicion about one of them not getting work done, coasting off of others
Wow.
In any other job, a manager ir HR will just read your chats, emails + demand to document calls - and guess what. It can be found. In a very not very subtle way.
Also the problem above is like managememt 101?
For all the talk about "no technical competence" you dont seem to have any managerial competence.
Also the agile idea that developers keep each other to professional standars is a nice fairy tale (like whole agile in general).
- hansmayer 2y agoSorry but what is your point? I feel like you got offended by identifying yourself in it, but did not really understand it. My point being, as a non-engineering manager, you can be great at 1) approving holidays 2) doing a bit of project management 3) doing formal 1:1s . But it does not mean much because you don´t understand the work being done and you are just doing performative actions, e.g. busywork. Or we just say, f*ck it, let MBAs and scrum masters keep running our critical engineering businesses and at the end of the day the doors fall off of Boeing airplanes and astronauts end up spending 9 months instead of 9 days in space.
- rvba 2y agoOnly an engineer with 30 years of experience can tell that a Mustang is better than a Model T /s
- hansmayer 2y agoWhy the /s? You're mixing apples and oranges I am afraid. Being a consumer of some product, is not the same as engineering the product. So you have the latest iPhone, good for you - still does not make you an engineer, nor do you have a clue what goes into designing, conceptualising and building a product. And yes, those of us with a bit more experience in the field, remember the times when engineering was done by people who had passion for it, not people desperate to make a career and income upgrade through bullshitting in meetings. For engineering a great product, as we can see with the great entshittification of pretty much everything today, Boeing being the most dangerous example, it's not just that the performative workers are being a drag on productivity and profitability, they are now also endangering everyone. I sure hope some idiot MBA does not come up with an idea of a medical PO or scrum master.
- rvba 2y agoOne does not need 20 years of programming experience to identify and fire a shitty employee that coasts by constantly asking others for help with their job. There are tons of bad programmers just like there are tons of people bad at other jobs. Those employees are often a net negative for the team by constantly wasting someone elses' time. On a side note, your constant whining about "MBAs" and "scrum masters"... it does not make you sound like a professional or reasonable person. This black-white view of world, that "all MBAs are bad". Whoa. (Just because I know where you will take it: (sadly?) I dont have an MBA. I am also not a scrum master)
- hansmayer 2y agoNo, please, instead of pointing out everything that is wrong in your reasoning: Please read a referent book about managing software development teams. For example "Peopleware", or "Dynamics of Software Development". Both a bit older, but valuable classics. The second one actually written by a relatively less technical author, a product manager at Microsoft. Maybe then you'll understand a bit more. By the way - I am not the only one complaining about the MBAs. Remember when that plane door fell off? US Congress was holding a hearing about that. And a number of US Congressmen (or were they senators?), people who literally never have the discussions that you and are having, kept asking one simple question: "How come the CEO of Boeing is not an ENGINEER"? It's so natural, that even those disconnected politicians made the obvious connection. Look it up in the archives.
- rvba 2y agoWell, since you cant point out anything, you point out some random books. I will point out something else: get tested for schizophrenia.
- hansmayer 2y agoRandom books, schizophrenia? I am the one not pointing out anything? Perhaps read your own replies slowly and reflect again :) I won´t dispute your medical competence, as I don´t have any and you seem to be an expert obviously, but for your own good, the two books are classics in their category, which you´d know if you approached your managerial duties with a tiny bit of sense of responsibility towards self-development.