Timeline for How do I manage effectively experienced (senior) specialists?
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| Feb 11, 2023 at 13:00 | comment | added | guest | @Stef: There is also (sometimes) the reality that you cannot at work change room easily without disadvantages;) | |
| Feb 9, 2023 at 9:51 | vote | accept | ARisseu | ||
| Feb 6, 2023 at 13:29 | comment | added | Gamora | You said you work as with software devs as a PO - do you have a scrum master? Can you approach them about the situation, it's potentially something they should be working to resolve | |
| Feb 5, 2023 at 10:20 | comment | added | Lodinn | I am concerned by the scrum remarks made here. You are supposed to translate business needs to a language engineers understand and communicate with stakeholders, maintain the backlog and user stories, not be a scrum master. Teams are largely self-managed and are willing to accept that the requirements are constantly changing, or you are not really doing scrum, you are doing cargo cult scrum. | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 15:46 | comment | added | David R | This sounds more like a communications role rather than a managing role. In short, if people managed by someone else are not cooperating with you, then your job sounds like it is communicating the issues to their managers. Someplace in the organization, there is a boss common to you and them. Communicate the issues up to that level. | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 13:36 | comment | added | Stef | "I was always working with team of juniors developers or software engineers, where I was always the smartest person in the room." There is a saying "If you're the smartest person in the room, then you're in the wrong room." | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 9:33 | answer | added | matt freake | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 7:11 | comment | added | virolino | I made an update to the title, because the original made me think about old people, close to retirement. If you do not agree with my change, please undo it or edit it again. | |
| Feb 2, 2023 at 7:10 | history | edited | virolino | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 1, 2023 at 23:07 | answer | added | TheDemonLord | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 15:09 | comment | added | Flats | Hoping that this get some more investigation, I agree with @TheDemonLord here, I feel there is a useful answer to this question, but I cannot provide one | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 9:05 | comment | added | ARisseu | Yes it's an headless bunch, and I'm the only manager there, relatively to this particular cross functional project | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 7:49 | comment | added | Touchdown | As a product owner, I wouldn't expect you to be managing people in the way the question implies. Usually that kind of responsibility is delegated to project managers or technical leads. Do you have anyone like that? Or is it just a 'headless' bunch of developers working on whatever they feel like? | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 6:56 | comment | added | ARisseu | Sometimes they don't get along among themselves. A very skilled developers is just focused on do what is told to, doesn't add the value he could. Domain experts don't ask him all what they should. I struggle to make them speak, so the project is slowly failing | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 6:53 | history | edited | ARisseu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 1, 2023 at 6:53 | comment | added | ARisseu | Edited for more clarity. | |
| Jan 31, 2023 at 23:45 | comment | added | keshlam | Is it actually your role to manage them? If so, is it actually your role to provide technical management, or just to be a "people manager"? Sometimes, when you have a subordinate who has skills you don't, the right thing to do is just to tell them the priorities, get out of their way, make sure they have what they need and keep others from wasting their time. | |
| Jan 31, 2023 at 23:04 | comment | added | TheDemonLord | There's things in this question that merit an Answer, but we really need some additional information at this stage. | |
| Jan 31, 2023 at 22:23 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 31, 2023 at 21:42 | comment | added | Job_September_2020 | Are you saying the senior developers you work with now are smart but don't get along well among themselves ? Or they get along well among themselves but don't get along with you ? | |
| Jan 31, 2023 at 21:41 | comment | added | Job_September_2020 | Which role do you have in the team ? manager ? project manager ? team lead ? junior ? senior ? | |
| S Jan 31, 2023 at 21:27 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Jan 31, 2023 at 21:27 | history | asked | ARisseu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |