Questions tagged [team]
Questions about the interactions of employees in a group
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How would you suggest I follow up with coworkers about our deadline that's today?
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So, I'm coordinating an application that an organization I work with will be sending in and there's a few applicants. I've been trying to collect materials over the ...
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Does “everyone mess around everywhere” in our project/do we have an organisational deficiency?
I am working in a large-ish software project with several dozen developers.
Our internal guidelines have it such that responsibilities for aspects of the application are clearly assigned. For ...
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How to deal with an overworked boss? [closed]
Today I had an argument with my boss.
We had some problems with our software. A configuration issue that was partly our fault, but also a problem with the support team that didn't deploy it correctly....
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How to handle new collective responsibility
Long story short: my team were each assigned a main focus among our daily/weekly tasks. If we completed early we’d see who else needed help, or what tasks were taking more time.
Now our new team ...
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Supervisor gives too short a time to finish tasks
I just got a job as a web programmer at this company. This is my first job. During the interview, they asked me to create a website, I created one using HTML and JavaScript.
As I started working, I ...
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Feeling unproductive in my team and would like to give my manager a plausible reason to change teams
I have joined a big company 2 months ago. In this company, there is a strong focus on diversity and inclusion, as well as making the employees feel well at their work.
However, the department / team ...
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How to put up signage on desk about not being bothered for an hour
***edited question for clarity****
My question is:
What can I do to indicate my current mood at my desk? to indicate in a way that's clear, concise and no-nonsense (with least avenue for poking fun)...
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Should I be worried if my manager prohibits me from working on certain items?
I work in a very collaborative place where the silos between teams almost don't exist. Infact, they are almost so non-existent, that I can just go up and help other teams with tasks if there is a ...
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Internship has several possible locations, some with smaller teams. How to ask for relocation?
I have the opportunity to intern for a company over the summer and I am very excited for it. The company has several locations and they thought that my background and interests match a team that works ...
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How to get coworkers to apply common solutions
We work in small teams on a few apps that all rely on one central API, which is also developed in-house. The team working on this API is composed entirely of senior developers.
With every rollout of ...
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Entry Level Dev moved to Project Management
I saw this question that looks very close to mine, but not entirely.
I've been a professional programmer for close to 2 years. The problem is that I'm the only IT staff in a small company and I did ...
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Awkward situation caused by mentoring relationship that wasn't agreed to or known about
I am on a team of juniors whose purpose is to support other, more senior, teams by handling common logistical things that the senior teams don't have time or expertise for. For example, we handle ...
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Appearance on website
I have been working for seven months in a team of four people on a new project. There are three additional members who occasionally get small tasks assigned, and are therefore loosely related to the ...
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How should this type of remote work environment be handled?
I work as a team lead for a small remote-working team. Last year, it had grown from 3 to 9 people and I am looking for advice on how to improve the effectivness of this team.
There is 9 team members ...
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How do I explain to my team members I can't debug their code all the time?
Background: I was hired along with 6 other people to help clean up internal webpages. A couple of months later, the manger and the people above him decided that when we're done with the internal ...
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How to deal with inter-team work in a toxic team? [closed]
I work for a company where the manager always justifies the shortcomings as "we are a company that happens to develop software, we're not a software development company".
There is the development ...
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What reasons should I give to my leader when asking for a team change?
I have got into a situation in my workplace and I would like to change my sub-team. The team I am working in is about 25 people working in 6 sub-teams on different problems and every sub-team has its ...
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My team mate is talking trash about me behind my back with my manager
I am leading a team of 5 and there is 1 manager who is above/supervising us.
One of my team-mates I get along well with; she behaves well and I discuss personal stuff and share jokes with her. ...
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How to deal with getting credit for something you didn't do?
So I'm working on a project, and was told to work with a partner for a specific part of it. Basically, I supplied the data/explained the project and then my Partner did the remaining work as it's ...
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The team I’m working with are thankless
Long story short I have been a Scrum Master for a team, the team are quick to criticize as opposed to acknowledge when I’ve helped them as a servant leader and have a tendency for delegating blame to ...
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A Divided and Disorganized Development Team [closed]
I work for a company with roughly 20 developers, maintaining collateral management systems written in .NET. Historically this company has always separated their development team in two groups - ...
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Objective analysis of the situation [closed]
I joined as a frontend developer in a large company. When I first came into my team, they handed me a project for supporting legacy code and developing new code.
After some time, they told me to ...
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How acceptable is it to openly compare team member performances
I had this manager that frequently brought up how team members performed compared to each other during one-on-ones or performance reviews. E.g. "A could do this task in half an hour you took three ...
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My boss is referring the team as employees, is it a good practice? [closed]
When ever my boss talks to my team or introduce my team to a third, he refer us as "employees", But I feel it irritating when called as "employee" instead of "team". I feel like he is treating us in a ...
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What to do when the entire team turns against you? [closed]
I had a great relationship with my team in the past .... There is one person who's been with the company nearly 20 years. He's survived it all! Not because he is a brilliant professional, but because ...
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How to deal with dishonest boss and colleagues [closed]
Characters:
Me - senior year college student. Back-end and infrastructure dev..
Boss X - junior year (different) college student
Colleague Y - junior year college student (same school as I, we meet ...
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Feeling left out from business trip
I manage two small software development teams at a remote site of a large, multinational corporation. Focusing on one of them, it consists of:
"A", a senior software developer who joined under 3.5 ...
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How to handle disrespectful treatment at workplace? [closed]
I joined in an organisation before 6 months as Ruby on Rails (ROR) Developer. I have complete experience as ROR Developer and with mid level front end skills. This organisation is wholly a JAVA based ...
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How to get credit or recognition for my work? [duplicate]
I am working on a software development project with a coworker who is senior to me in rank and age. This coworker has a life long disability and he regularly uses medication which often makes him ...
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Coworker making annoying and teasing comments. How to resolve it informally?
I have a coworker X who is part of my SCRUM team.
Coworker X's desk happens to be right by the front door. The way his cube is setup, gives him clear view on who is entering or/and leaving the ...
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Disrespectful Colleague, Management not Doing a Thing
I have been in my current job for almost 7 months (it's my first job out of college), the first month was awesome! I really loved my job and enjoyed every minute of it! then there were some changes in ...
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How do you learn to work in team? [duplicate]
I often think that I should know something already. Sometimes I catch myself thinking that if somebody knows how to do something then he/she could do this by himself and when I ask for everything then ...
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Convincing management to redo work that's already been done
My agency has been developing an application that they're hoping will bring in a lot of revenue and they're going about it the wrong way. The agency usually only deals with wordpress and drupal type ...
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Treated like a child at work via excessive praise?
I have recently moved into a new team at work (2 months or so) and recently I have noticed that I feel like I am being treated like I am a small child. This mostly comes in the form of excessive (and ...
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Managing a team member when co-located
I am co-located with my team member who reports to me. Near us, inside a room seating about 8 people, are other members from various unrelated teams.
Often there is banter and jokes, that are no ...
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How to motivate team to be proactive on daily scrum?
My question is related to this one but it is not the same actually.
The context is the following: I'm the new manager of a new team, with 2 technical senior members. The rest of the team is new.
We'...
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I submitted a good feedback about a co-worker, should I tell them or not?
I am guessing the answer here would be both cultural and professional approach. But here is the issue:
I am in USA with a big company (~400 employees). Annually, we get performance reviews from the ...
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What to do when the developer whose code I review becomes defensive?
I am in the following situation. Small team within a large unit with many teams. There is an official code review process, but to a lot of developers it is more of a formality so it is a rare thing to ...
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coworkers unwilling to do code reviews
At work I've been temporary lent to another team this quarter because they have too much work on their plate. I'm here to work on subject X for this team, that is kinda stand-alone but would benefit ...
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Organization and efficiency of team meetings and 1-to-1
We are a small (5 people) team of geographically dispersed employees in a big international corporation. Up until now, our manager decided not to have 1-to-1 meetings with any of us, but a single ...
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How can I ask my manager to give me a break from the current project?
For past 4-5 months I've been engaged in an independent project in my company. What I'm building is going to be used internally. 4 months ago, a senior architect (now a non-technical upper manager) ...
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How can I clarify reporting structures, within the team, without sounding egomaniacal?
I work for a large public-sector organisation, in a managerial capacity, based in the UK.
I started on this role about two months ago and then another team member was recruited, who I believe, as per ...
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How to deal with differing opinions in a semi-large team [closed]
I am a part of a development team of 16 people split into 4 diciplines of varying sizes.
We are a few weeks into production and we have yet to decide on a team name. We have a few contestants but ...
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My colleague burps loudly all the time, How to handle the situation ?
This colleague of mine sits next to me like barely 2-3 feet apart. she keeps burping out loud all day every 10-15 min or so.
It's annoying and i cannot find a way to tell her without sounding rude.
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What if I'm a better developer than my Team Leader?
Based on his daily commits, I see that he writes lots of bad code and doesn't follow any good practices.
I tried talking to him about better ways of writing code like SOLID, DRY, etc (tried to be as ...
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How to politely suggest a co-worker needs to try to find the answer on their own before coming to me?
I am a senior-level developer in a large corporation in the US. Two of my co-workers on the same project work with me and sit in the same office, right by me. We'll call them Bob and Jim. They are ...
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Can I gracefully skip part of a work outing?
I have just started a job 4 days ago (hooray!). The model of my team is a "startup within a big corporation," so we work in a coworking space separate from the main campus, people are in and out a lot,...
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Feeling left out at work. What do I do?
I've been at the company for 2 months now, yet I feel so ostracised by my co-workers.
In the first month, I tried fitting in by being proactive in involving myself with work events and socialising ...
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Gain managerial experience without making (or at least minimizing) mistakes [closed]
I have just been assigned to a new role in my company. It is not entirely different than my previous role, just that I have to manage people now and take more responsibility in projects.
Basically, I ...
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How can I avoid the stigma associated with being late into work everyday?
I recently have started a new job. I commute in via train a fair distance but am never late (I usually got in around 15 minutes before my contracted start time). Recently, improvement works have ...
