Étiquette : The manager's path
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[Lecture] The Virtues of Laziness and Impatience
Extrait de The Manager’s Path faster” is not about “the same number of hours but fewer total days.” “Faster” is about “the same value to the company in less total time.” If the team works 60 hours in a week to deliver something that otherwise would’ve taken a week and a half, they haven’t worked…
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[Lecture] Good Manager, Bad Manager: Us Versus Them, Team Player
Extraits de The Manager’s Path In-groups tend to be resistant to ideas that do not come from those within the group. […] Because they believe they’re in the best group but they still find themselves bored, they don’t appreciate the growth they could find just by switching to a new team. On parle souvent des architectes…
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[Lecture] Measuring the Health of Your Development Team
Extrait de The Manager’s Path Frequency of Releases Je trouve toujours ça très dur de mesurer la santé des équipes de développement avec des indicateurs chiffrés. Il y a bien plus de moyen de mal interpréter et mal utiliser ces indicateurs que de manière de bien le faire. Je ne suis pas en train de…
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[Lecture] Technical Elements Beyond Code
Extrait de The Manager’s Path Assuming that the job at this level becomes essentially nontechnical is a mistake. Je ne sais toujours pas où me situer. Quelque part, ce que je fais demande de la connaissance et compétence technique. Il y a une part de légitimité auprès des équipes mais aussi de savoir ce que…
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[Lecture] Challenging Situations: Stratégies for Saying No
Extraits de The Manager’s Path But to create this environment, she sometimes must say no. She must say no to the team. She must say no to her peers. She must even say no to her boss. Ce chapitre me rappelle les livres d’aide aux parents. Il faut savoir dire non, mais le faire d’une…
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[Lecture] Decisions and Delegation
Extrait de The Manager’s Path A friend of mine recently became a director of engineering, and she had to start having an assistant order her lunch because she discovered that she would forget to eat — and had no energy to decide what to eat when she realized she needed food. Sans en arriver à…
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[Lecture] Managing Multiple Teams
Extrait de The Manager’s Path You probably have tech leads reporting to you now, though, and juggling the work of directly managing more than three or four people with the process of understanding details about what’s happening across a couple of teams probably means one important thing: you’re not writing (much, any, production) code. Je…
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[Lecture] Advanced Project Management
Extrait de The Manager’s Path if you fill the schedule to 100% with feature development, expect that the feature development will quickly slow down as a result of this overscheduling » Juste avant, l’auteure parle de ne compter que 10 semaines et non 13 par trimestre, pour prendre en compte les congés, l’onboarding des nouveaux employés,…
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[Lecture] Challenging Situations: Team Cohesion Destroyers
Extraits de The Manager’s Path The real goal here is psychological safety On met beaucoup de choses derrière ce terme mais c’est un des enseignements majeurs de ceux qui ont mené de vraies études pour trouver des corrélations dans les équipes qui fonctionnent bien. La corrélation ne se situe pas sur le niveau d’étude, l’expérience,…
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[Lecture] Good Manager, Bad Manager: Conflict Avoider, Conflict Tamer
Je reprends mes notes de lectures de The Manager’s Path. It’s hard to know what’s going to happen next on Jason’s team because instead of guiding the team, he’s having the team guide itself. Ce chapitre fait un peu mal. Je sais que je me suis pris beaucoup de murs dans mes premières années de…