Questions tagged [team]
Questions about the interactions of employees in a group
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New manager doesn't believe in me and reprimanded me for asking questions
I'm a junior developer. In my first week back after time off due to some issues, my new manager reprimanded me because a senior dev team member complained to him that I was asking him questions about ...
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Since when work groups are called teams?
It was back in 2013 when I switched to a job where I first heard work groups (or departmemts/divisions) to be referred to as "teams".
The mid-level managers who were using the word "...
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How do you know when you should make a job change
How do you know when you should make a job change? I feel like I am the most motivated member of my team. Everyone else seems to be just slogging through to get through the work day. Does this mean I ...
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How to deal with a good new employee with poor verbal communication?
We onboarded a new senior guy recently for a project manager type of role. Based on his past experience and profile/portfolio of work, he is very good. He has handled complex jobs at large orgs in the ...
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Firing one engineer in a very small team who passed a non-running github project off as a finished prototype
So this is not my real account. Sorry about that.
I run a startup where all fulltime employees also have an equity stake (with vesting and a 1 year cliff). One of the engineers we (I) brought on board ...
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How to "swap" team leads without upsetting the current one?
One of the teams in my department has a team lead that's not quite fit for the job - he is great on the technical and professional level but not made to lead a team. One of his guys has expressed an ...
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How to deal with a colleague who has a really bad performance
I am a team leader for a SW Team which got freshly merged with another team.
One of the new team members (call him Member X) is showing really bad performance and most of his tasks only get finished ...
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Project leader does not allow for my reduced capacity due to Educational commitments
My situation: Two weeks ago I changed from fulltime employment to parttime (20 hours per week) to finish my bachelor's degree. I communicated this to my team leader and colleagues 4 months ago. My ...
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How to respond to this work situation?
I work in a corporate environment and come from a Mathematics background. We develop products for customers and my job is to come up with mathematically sound algorithms to develop solutions. I have a ...
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Should I explain it is not retaliation?
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My team leader, with hierarchical and project responsibilities, has problems with my team. To be clear and concise, most of the team is jealous of one, namely Bob. Because Bob is often ...
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Being moved to a new team but was not told which team they will move me to
My manager told me that my team is getting split into two, and that after the split, I will be with half of my team temporarily for a new project and will be moving to a new team after the project is ...
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Correct way to ask if someone is online/at their desk
Due to WFH, everyone in my team communicates on Teams which is official communication channel for our office.
Most of the times my boss and because of him my subordinates as well often start any ...
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Is it wrong to be honest to the manager about a messed-up project?
Recently, I was shifted from one project to another. The project was developed by a small team of a small company, who could not continue the project because of resource crunch, and hence the project ...
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Moving all Designers to a single team
I've just joined a SaaS company as Head of Design in which I'm leading a team of Product Designers. I learned after a couple weeks that there are also designers under the Marketing team who seem to be ...
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Developer Workflow Management [closed]
So I'm currently working alone on my software project and I was thinking about getting some people to work with me.
Now my question is based on security but also accessibility. How can I manage the ...
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How to keep disagreements healthy as a leader? [closed]
In my meetings, disagreements tend to be quite unhealthy from my point of view. They don't become toxic or offensive at all, but you can just feel the environment charging up a bit. Therefore, I am ...
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How to help a team member voice out their struggle?
The team I am in is made of a 10+ member. In the last semester, in two different anonymous surveys on the engagement/satisfaction, 1 team member has expressed that they are not happy with the team, ...
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How to deal with co-workers who say that I don't trust them?
So we're working on a work process automation project. Basically our company is going to procure a machine and substitute the current manual process to be automatic. Obviously, this project has a ...
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How do you comeup with multiple teams where work in interlaced and all deliver the same Single UI project
I currently hold a team of 17 all of whom work on delivering single product --Admin UI. The problem with such a big team is Grooming, Standups, dividing works, scaling new team members, handling ...
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What's a synonym for the "top cover" provided by one's manager?
There's a military slang term, "providing top cover":
combat airplanes flying at high altitude to protect from air attack a military force especially of other airplanes flying at a lower ...
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My current job doesn't excite me, and any exciting work is taken over by senior members. How should I discuss this with my manager?
I joined a product company 1.5 years ago as a full stack developer.
As per the Job description it was mentioned they need people skilled in Java as well as HTML and JavaScript. I was asked interview ...
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How to tactically bring up to the Program Manager the Team Leader is part of the problems at work
Currently working for a Defense Contractor as a DevOps System Engineer, in which I'm supporting software developers, getting out frequent software builds to our customer. Don't have an exact count of ...
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Data Analyst new role - culture shock at new place
I recently changed from a 4 year consulence as Data Engineer in a big consultancy firm to a Data Analyst Role with Tableau and PowerBi in another consultancy company for a stable contract.
In previous ...
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How do I deal with teammates who intentionally try to hold me back and bring me down while I'm going the extra mile?
I've automated a couple of small processes that are used by several people. And I've also added some pretty solid error-handling in our automation code in order to automate a pesky app that has a very ...
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How can I convince my manager that I am overloaded?
I'm in my first year as a team lead, and the team I'm managing is mostly new employees who have all been hired in the past 6 months so they haven't gotten to a stage where they're comfortable with all ...
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How do you handle colleagues who constantly give you resistance?
I work as a full stack developer in a team of 7 developers. I like to receive the constructive criticism as well as give it when needed.
I love to review PRs and strive to maintain high coding ...
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Colleague frequently late, often when manager is not present
I work for a micro company with less than 10 employees and the working atmosphere is generally good and everyone gets along most of the time. One gripe is that people are on time but there is one ...
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Team building in the post-COVID-19 era
I am not sure whether I should call now (July 2021) the "post-COVID-19 era", but let me just use that in my question. About team building I don't mean those "fancy" outdoor ...
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Critical handoffs to/from another team that does not have their s**t together
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Teams A, B, and C all report up through the same organization and each has its own manager and lead(s). The teams work closely together to perform related but distinct functions, and each ...
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Working with best friends who live together
I'm a software engineer in a large company. We are a small team and two of the other engineers have been friends since childhood and currently live together. They review each others work and provide ...
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Transitioning from a semi-autonomous role to a heavily managed role
I've been working as a data scientist/analyst at my current company for close to four years now. My former manager (call him Dinesh) left at the end of last year and since then, his manager (call him ...
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Suspecting the veteran members of the team have their own WhatsApp group used to laugh at newcomers
I'm part of an eight people team, plus a team leader.
Four of us are relatively new to the company and the team, while the other four and the team leader are veterans and worked together from day one ...
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Helping a colleague that does not give credit back
We are a 2-developer team and a PM.
My colleague is new and his skills are lacking with regards to his position. As result he is getting a lot of help from he. My problem is that when it comes to the ...
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Muslim colleague is uncomfortable with 1:1 meeting and work culture — to what degree should I accommodate?
A female Muslim employee recently joined my team. I work in IT — cybersecurity as a the technical lead / team lead. She is considered to directly report to me. I am in the USA.
As a manager, I believe ...
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Will my coworkers resent me for outpacing them?
I work at a large corporation in a team of 10 people. Seven of the people are one level above me in terms of seniority and only 2 of them have directs.
I asked my manager to lead a project about 6 ...
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Helping a team member to ramp-up
I work in a startup of 9 people.
It is my first position as a lead developer.
I have started to build my team 9 months ago, we were two for many months and due to a tight deadline we have hired two ...
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How to handle internal candidate team doesn't want back?
My wife's team has a pretty stressful job. It's a small team (3 people + 1 supervisor). One team member was very vocal about things that were bad, scheduling, overtime, on-call, etc. and quit and ...
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How do I encourage team/senior developers to write mandatory unit testings?
How to encourage team/senior developers to write mandatory unit testings?
Team background and my role
I am an iOS developer, working in a team of 6-7 members. There are only two iOS developers, ...
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How to save my boss' face when his evidence to motivate us is wrong?
One day my boss sent in our team chat group a screenshot of his conversations with one of his former subordinates who is now working in a giant. In a conversation my former colleague(the mentioned guy)...
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Supporting colleague presented with racially discriminatory remark
I work as the team lead / technical lead where I work in a team of 8. I have been with my current company for just short of 7 years and am well respected by both colleagues within and outside the team....
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New Employee with Challenging Team Dynamics
I started a new position on March 1, and while it is in a field that I absolutely love, I am challenged by unclear direction, new expectations and interesting team dynamics.
Our manager is very "...
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Can I promote the Coursera team plan to my boss? [closed]
I have learned for about a year on Coursera outside working hours, and I think the courses may also benefit my teammates. Recently I found the platform provides a team plan, so I wonder if I can ...
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What is limiting in having big dev teams? [closed]
We all know that small teams work better then big teams, and there is even a study.
But what are the limiting factors of big teams? why do they do so poorly compared to small teams?
a 32-person team ...
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Is there a well established name/title for a role taking the technical and product ownership together in the software industry? [closed]
It has happened several times that I needed to spend quite some time and effort to explain my role as a manager that manages a team around 10 people. My team builds a webapp for outside customers. My ...
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How to handle disagreements when roots are politics [closed]
I have encountered the following situation.
I am in a specific team in which the politics in various directions are very important. That was never my strong point.
This includes how some of the people ...
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Dispatcher didn't mention me in Jira task; how should I clarify? [closed]
I work in an IT department with Jira. Before the ticket reaches my team, a dispatcher has to delegate the Jira-Task to someone.
The "problem " : it appears more than once (today will be the ...
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Extend current tool stack of data science team
I recently started to lead a data science focused company with two departments that has uses SPSS Modeler extensively. To be honest nobody there has close to the skills of a data scientist. My ...
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Boss hinting at promotion has made team competitive
I'm part of a small team - there's the team lead, me, and 2 other people. Aside from the team lead we're all at the same level & job title.
We've always worked very well together and our team is ...
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Hired for too high a level position
I'm an experienced developer with almost 20 years of experience. I have a history of being too weak in negotiations and getting too low compensation/position and then overperforming.
Two months ago I ...
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Is a public "shoutouts" channel a good or bad idea?
I work at a small, but rapidly growing company (~40 people now, 100+ people in sight). We use Slack as our primary communication tool, and recently, a new channel has been created that is dedicated to ...
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