pypudding

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by pypudding 2y ago
It’s not just about trying hard that beats the mediocrity, there’s also the macroeconomy and the politics in the global scale, plus a lot of untold coincidences and personal anecdotes in the personal level that you just happen to not know.
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by pypudding 2y ago
Very well said. Retro is a collaborative effort, and the decision makers for the team need to participate in retro meetings to address difficult topics. Yup it's overlooked by many teams since it's hard to quantify what a good pro
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Ask HN: Would you use GPT to write incident retrospectives?
3 points by pypudding 2y ago|0 comments
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by pypudding 2y ago
That's nice. AFAIK SRE retros are harder to get product buy ins. It could really depend on the team and the service they provide...
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by pypudding 2y ago
It's definitely great when done well. How about the tougher ones like incident retrospectives(or postmortems)? Is it also a team effort?
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by pypudding 2y ago
We had three kinds of retros - product(half an year), sprint(monthly), incident(per rotation). Yes product folks join the first one, but definitely not the more frequent engineering retros, which is also where the mentioned issues surface f
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by pypudding 2y ago
I think FAANG have enough resources that the bottom-up projects are not necessarily for solving a huge pain point like startups. The projects may be related to the engineer's personal growth goal, or an optimization of an existing inte
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by pypudding 2y ago
yes, I wish the PMs also say that. :)
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by pypudding 2y ago
well yes, assignment is fine, but given eng's limited bandwidth and the product's conflicting priorities mean the action items coming out of retros are deprioritized, unless someone can really make a case for them.
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by pypudding 2y ago
Friday retros actually drained the energy out of me. Retros need to be intentional so forcing people to be intentional at 3pm on Friday is likely doing the opposite. I wish there's an easier way to async do retros.
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Ask HN: Do retros that don't suck even exist?
6 points by pypudding 2y ago|18 comments