Questions tagged [team]
Questions about the interactions of employees in a group
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Is it bad / silly to congratulate a colleague who I am competing with?
I'm a product manager working in a big company.
My track consists of two teams trying to build one product. The product is big and that's why we scope it to two different teams.
Our senior product ...
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Team lunch with a prospective senior engineer - what to expect?
I am a SDE 2 on a team with one other SDE 2, one SDE, and my manager. My manager mentioned that we'll be going to lunch with a Senior SDE candidate. We are in the later stages of the interview process ...
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How do I convince management to listen to their employees regarding the workplace or professional problems?
The management team at the company I work for (in England) are all exceptionally experienced in their own fields. Most have a PhD or greater level of academic qualification and this goes with the ...
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How to make Coworkers/Employees feel their work is important
Every year we have a survey at our company where employees get to rate several different aspects of their employment. The results are important to us and we review them and try to improve things where ...
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How do I stop obeying my junior team member all the time?
I work in a small software company. A junior developer joined my team few months back. The problem is that I am constantly obeying whatever he asks me to do.
I am just a senior person on team and don'...
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Cultural differences in the willingness to exercise “position power”?
I'm reading the book "High Output Management" by Andrew S. Grove, a (naturalized) American, who distinguishes between "knowledge power" - i.e. people who have a lot of influence in a company, not due ...
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How to shut off an elder co-worker?
I work at a market research organisation mixed with many workers with various professions. I have a teammate who is older than me and has worked for 7 years more than me. Although, she has the same ...
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What would be a good project I could undertake that would demonstrate being a team player in a very public way? [closed]
I am a senior software developer and I am a team player through large independent and individual contribution. Other than that, I largely hate it. I hate the small talk, I hate most people's ...
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Asking for email introduction of the new coworker to the whole group
We have a new temporary coworker in our lab (it is academia, but not academia-specific question). There are about 12 people working here.
I would like to ask for a lab-wide introduction of this ...
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How to Handle Competitive and Blame Culture Within Team
Context: This is a software development team within a small e-commerce company. I am acting team lead whilst the current team lead is handing over to me and preparing for retirement. I have been in ...
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How can I encourage a new team member to show more initiative?
I am team lead of the Information Security Operations team where I work. Several weeks ago, a new team member joined the team. This person a very strong technical background (several years of relevant ...
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How can a developer talk to a shareholder about concerns after merger
I work in a startup founded about a year and a half ago by someone that I knew personally (friend of a friend). I like and respect this individual, and started working for the company which was, at ...
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Building a new tech department in the company
In my current company, we are undergoing an engineering team restructuration because we are growing from 50ish to 100ish engineers only this year.
The current structure does not work anymore so we ...
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Why for my Senior all my ideas are Garbage because I am a Fresher?
I am getting depressed by the behaviour of my senior. Whenever I want to talk with him about any new idea which may be good for our product, he replies to me in a very arrogant manner and always ...
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Team members' and manager's behaviour is indifferent after I announce my intention to leave in 8 months
I was on a 4 week wedding leave last month. When I returned few weeks back, I find that everyone in the team was a bit indifferent towards me. I'm not seeking any special attention or behavior, etc. I'...
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Colleague fixes my bugs
I value my free time and try not to work from home on weekends as one of my colleagues.
Recently I got into following situation:
Friday evening (after working hours) QA hit me up on Slack about a ...
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Dealing with conflict in matrix management
I'm a technical lead who also line manages developers. One of the devs (lets call her Alice) I manage works in a separate scrum team to the ones I'm the tech lead for. The teams do all work on the ...
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Need to Change Teams: Who to Talk With?
TL; DR
Want to change teams to escape horrendous line manager.
To ask to change, first approach hiring manager of potential new team? Or HR? Or manager-of-manager? Or someone else?
Wait till dust ...
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Start of day discussions [closed]
I'm a software engineer in a team of 6 people. 3 of which are ostensibly more junior members, they've been here less than a year. All in their mid-late twenties. We work 7 hours a day and I feel like ...
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How to decline invite to team dinner when I have a prior engagement?
I am being invited to a team dinner which I won't be able to attend as I have to go for swimming coaching classes every evening.
I don't know how to decline the invitation and also politely tell ...
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1answer
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Work ethic ,Simulating activity and being loud [closed]
I have the following situation and I'm not sure how to react.
In my team there are three members:
A Junior with 2 years of experience
Myself and another Senior with 15+ years of experience (...
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Should I talk to a colleague who seems to be suddenly annoyed with me?
I'm in a four person team that is comprised by me, my sister and 2 other guys.
One of the two other team members seems to be pissed off about something and I am not sure if I need to address it or ...
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2answers
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Is it a good idea to switch teams within your company if you're under stress? [closed]
I work for a company where internal transfers are normal. I've been on my team for 2 years and a few months ago I started to look for a new one only because I felt bored and wanted to see something ...
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One of my best engineers feels that he is slower than the rest of team, how can I determine the real problem (so I can solve it)?
I have a distributed scrum team and the developer in question is one of my best (produces quality code, knows his tech stack, can communicate well, etc). However, he keeps feeling like he doesn't ...
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Senior staff member leaving, told everyone except her boss (me)
I own and run a small business with six full time staff. They are mostly French nationals, while I am a UK national.
The team leader has decided to quit, and has shared this, along with the exact ...
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Problem working with project partner I picked [closed]
Soon I'm going to turn 16 and in school, I have to start work on a major project which will be very valuable for my end-year certificate.
A few weeks back I engaged with a friendly student who just ...
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Should I tell my manager that I am being targeted by the team?
There were some lay offs recently, and I have noticed that I am being targeted by the team as a prompt to be the next to get laid off. For example:
Performance hits by decreasing estimates of my work....
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As an introvert team lead, how to make team members trust me with their future career plans
About me:
I am an introverted team lead. My superiors and my team members do recognize that I am an effective leader. Also, I do not really get strict or angry usually when things go wrong , instead ...
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What is the proper way to request team/project change?
I am working in a software firm on a project which doesn't have any work left. The team is of only 3 people, all three of us are from a different domain. Even If I ask for the project change, I don't ...
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What to do with an expert coworker who is “stealing the show”?
I work in a mature company and I am the youngest/newest one. The team was stable until recent lay offs.
I don't know if it was the lay offs, or me not being "a new guy" anymore, but recently I have ...
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How to deal with a remote teammate who's not doing their job?
I currently work as a virtual assistant (VA) for a company abroad. There are three of us on the VA Team, and we are all accountable for one set of deliverables per day. Another thing that might be ...
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Explaining observations/concepts/conclusions to people who are unaware of your Domain Knowledge
I am software developer. During last five years I have tried to grab knowledge from various technical areas and from colleagues. And now I landed up in a company where the people in my team are either ...
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Should I reveal productivity tricks to peers, or keep them to myself in order to be more productive than the others?
I am working as a Software Engineer and working with team on one of the products.
While working I have developed some productivity tools and tricks which can automate some repetitive tasks and ...
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Left out of fun project at work, should I bring this up to the team?
I am the newest employee in my office. Several months before I joined, management directed all the workers to form teams to spend a "experimental day" or two per month working on whatever as long as ...
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How do I encourage team members to present proposals, not problems?
There are times when junior team members encounter a problem and then mail the team, asking "what should I do?".
I want to encourage my team-mates to do more individual thinking and produce a ...
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Team name change [closed]
We're 2 teams of SQL Server Database Administrators one based in Europe and one in India, apart from traditional DBA's work we work on different technologies also. we have been looking for team name ...
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Colleague trying to take credit from my hard work [duplicate]
The owner of my company has another business, both companies are very small and both share the same office space.
My problem is this, there's a senior employee working for the other company who seems ...
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How to justify getting additional team member when the current team is doing well?
I've been working in a large IT company in a 2 man team, for the past 3 years. We are very dedicated and we have a strong image as serious and reliable. Every important development comes our way.
The ...
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How can I deal with teammate who is not a team player, possibly searching for glory? [closed]
To clarify, this is actually my senior project for my university so no changes could be made personnel wise. However, I'd like to apply this situation to a workplace setting, as that's what it is, ...
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Name or Rules of a Team Building Exercise [closed]
A few years back, I participated in a great Team building exercise that I still think about today very often.
I would now like to organize the same exercise for my team, and thus would like to find ...
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Should I inform my future product owner that there is a good chance that a team member will leave the company soon?
Bob is a rather new employee that was hired as a junior to maintain some older applications (mostly SQL support, a little of front end development).
Since Bob's activity does not cover 100% working ...
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Anonymous coworker brought in food in a rusty container affecting my reputation. How should I react?
I am a foreigner who works in a big company in the US for the past few years. I work across multiple departments so I dealt with many coworkers and not just my team.
I am very social so I am close ...
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Provide 2nd line tech support without disrupting sprint
We have two teams: a customer support one and a development team - and they're both very small (1-5 people)
Every now and then customers may raise issues that are too technical for the customer ...
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How can I ask my boss to consider dietary restrictions when ordering lunch for the office?
My boss occasionally orders lunch for the entire team in our office. It’s always catered and buffet style.
I have celiac‘s disease, therefore I can’t have anything containing gluten. Every time he ...
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Is it ok for a company to organize a team building event on a weekend?
A company wants to organize a team building event for a team (optional to attend, but an organizer is verbally pressuring). They proposed several dates but all of them are on a weekend.
I'm just ...
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Teambuilding: Breaking the five dysfunctions
Our team was asked to read The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and we are working on breaking those to improve our teamwork and encourage the associated functions.
These are the five dysfunctions, ...
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Technical Lead/Mentor quitting, is it normal to ask for them to share my resume as well?
I work in a very small company (only 3 developers, one of which being my tech lead). I have been here for over two years now and had the fortunate experience of being mentored by a very competent ...
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How to deal with teammates who are curt and avoid helping me? [closed]
I am in USA and I work for a big global company. I recently moved to a new team which is in a different time zone in USA. I worked with them in their office for a few days and then began working 100% ...
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How to configure a team for this purpose? [closed]
I was at an interview where we had to work in a team of 10 and we were required to solve two different problems with a final solution. We had 1 hour. We were acting as colleagues working for a ...
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Can a part time employee move up in the organization? [closed]
I work part time at an engineering firm. I would like to progress to Department Manager. I am part of the technical teams and manage projects now.
Since I work 4 days a week, sometimes it takes me ...
