Timeline for New Manager who used to be colleague interfering with my work
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| Apr 2, 2018 at 22:29 | vote | accept | Sunil | ||
| Apr 1, 2018 at 5:00 | answer | added | BobRodes | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 31, 2018 at 2:42 | comment | added | Joe Stevens | @Sunil In purely practical terms, could the Architects' meeting be rescheduled (for some reason) to engineer a conflict with a Managers' meeting? Beyond that, how is he getting along with actual management? Are project plans in place, how are the relationships with stakeholders, recruiting pipelines, etc.? Maybe you can steer him so he gives more of his efforts on those topics? | |
| Mar 30, 2018 at 21:29 | history | edited | Sunil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 30, 2018 at 21:19 | comment | added | Sunil | @Lilienthal sorry if it wasn't clear enough -- he is indeed managing me. All architects report to the respective Head of Development, but according to the communicated guideline, Head of Dev. is purely a managerial role and he is supposed to respect the technical decisions taken by architect(s) who report to him. This worked as long as manager was interested in managing and leading and it stopped working when manager is over-involved in architecture decisions. | |
| Mar 30, 2018 at 19:47 | comment | added | Lilienthal♦ | @Sunil You may want to edit your question then because it reads like he was promoted and is managing you and your fellow architects. If he's outside that management structure you should make that more explicit. And if that's the case, why haven't you looped your actual manager in yet? | |
| Mar 30, 2018 at 18:03 | comment | added | Sunil | @Ramhound - this does not seem to be the case. Lately, he is crashing into Architecture meetings, mentioning his "nostalgia" | |
| Mar 30, 2018 at 18:01 | comment | added | Sunil | @Lilienthal - he is NOT a manager of the architecture group. He is one of the several Head of Dev. in our company. Several developers and one or two architects report to him. We have many such departments. Architects are a lateral group whose task is to protect the interest of the overall enterprise by mitigating technical risk. In my previous job, inorder to avoid precisely these kind of conflict of interest, Architecture group formed a separate line of hierarchy | |
| Mar 30, 2018 at 14:26 | comment | added | Donald | As this person is the manager it is up to him to take the advice their Architects provides. If your boss does not trust you, and that appears to be the case, what you describe ends up happening. | |
| Mar 30, 2018 at 14:08 | answer | added | HLGEM | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 30, 2018 at 11:15 | answer | added | Kilisi | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 30, 2018 at 8:52 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWorkplace/status/979642609470668800 | ||
| Mar 30, 2018 at 6:59 | comment | added | Lilienthal♦ | "how can I remind him that he has a new role now and him playing the old role creates a conflict of interest" You do realise that as the manager he gets the make the call on how involved he is? And making decisions on architecture and the direction he wants you all to go is quite the opposite of micro-managing. As the manager of an architect team he's supposed to push his opinion as he gets to decide what direction to take his team in. Why are you surprised by any of this? | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 21:44 | answer | added | Dan Pichelman | timeline score: 22 | |
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| Mar 29, 2018 at 21:31 | history | asked | Sunil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |