Questions tagged [team]
Questions about the interactions of employees in a group
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I found a security vulnerability in our code. How do I present it in our sprint review?
Last week I found a serious security vulnerability in our code during a PR review. Twice a month we have a sprint review where we all present our work for the past 2 weeks.
I'm excited that I ...
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My successor and her future primary contact do not get along
For several years, I have been working as the technical lead of a team of 7 engineers responsible for one part of a large project in a company based in Germany. As a team lead, my tasks included ...
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Explain to my manager that the current position is not a good match for my experience?
I started working in this team a bit more than a year ago, and it was supposed that it's a position of C# programmer but 95% of the job that I actually do here has nothing to do with C# - it's ...
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Am I responsible for loss of valuable supplies (>usd120k)?
I work at a molecular bio lab as a postgraduate student and I'm relatively new. My team currently focuses on antibody research and hence my post-doctorate team supervisor had ordered a lot of various ...
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How can I lead co-workers into active problem solving instead of expecting explicit numbered instructions?
I am a software developer with 10 years of professional experience. In order to gain experience leading a team, I have decided to be involved in a side project with a friend who switched careers via a ...
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How to manage repetitive no-work or no progress with some of your teammates or employee? [closed]
Here are a couple of things about myself:
I'm a co-founder and joined the start-up after 1 year.
I have real SWE, Architecture and management experience in many other start-ups in Silicon Valley.
I ...
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How do I make an impact in a new job where I feel the team is not supportive and pulling me back?
I have completed 3 months in a new company. I have over 9 years experience some of them as a lead but I joined here as an individual contributor.
I am finding it difficult to make an impact despite ...
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How to perform and shine in a team when the boss is too busy to manage
When the manager is too busy to micromanage and monitor the progress of the project, he empowers and delegate it to me and my colleagues, who form a small team to work on a project. However, due to ...
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For a startup with 3+ founders how can it be damaging if two of the founders are working more closely together than with the rest of the team?
I am part of a startup that currently has four founders. Initially I started working on this project with a friend of mine, later on we invited two more people to join us. Currently, the distribution ...
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How can the L2 support team gain knowledge about the product? - Scrum framework
This may vary from company to company. but in general, how is this done? Or, how should this be done?
This question is somewhat related to this and this. But not the same.
We have 5 dev teams and a ...
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Is it rude for coworkers to ignore your idea?
You join a team to help them with the project. This is a team that is outside of your main responsibilities. Your boss tells you it's a good project since it's in the early stages and you can ...
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What's the value to be realized in a 'team work agreement'?
We've recently hired a new Product Owner (PO) into our organization, which is a software engineering department inside an academic research institution. She recently asked her team to create a 'team ...
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How can I learn to lead at the client as a mid-level software developer in the workplace?
I was externally hired by a company to help them with software development. All people at the client are software developers too. I was asked to lead them, but I don't know how. I'm quite introverted, ...
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How to develop as a recently promoted team lead when your VP is always busy?
I've been a software engineer for quite a while, but recently I got promoted to a team lead which causes me a lot of STRESS.
Now I'm superior to my peers which makes all of us a bit uncomfortable, but ...
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How to increase self-esteem of team?
I've just joined the new company. There are few developers team, and each of them is responsible for another part of the product. I'm the engineering manager of the one of teams.
The problem I'm ...
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How to let your manager know some of your colleagues are not the sharpest pencils in the box
I have situations where time and again I encounter non-sense, non-high-standard behavior from some of my colleagues in the work.
These colleagues report to the same manager as me.
These can be ...
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Taking over the lead of a team but not official - am I not set up for success?
I joined a software development team at work 12 months ago, switching from a different team within the same company. Let's briefly go through the people in the team: a manager and then myself, person ...
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How many project managers does a startup need?
I've worked at 3 separate startups, most had 1 - 2 PMs, usually roughly 1 PM per 3-5 developers. My current position is similar, there are 4 teams of 2-3 devs, each with their own PM.
My friend's ...
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How to deal with a senior who is showing signs of lethargy?
I am working on a project with a team of three (my team lead, me and one of my peer). My team lead is very experienced in the field and vastly knowledgeable. He is very dedicated and committed to the ...
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How to deal with an incompetent department in a new firm
Me and my team were hired to a new software organisation, "X". Top management is good and wants us to succeed. We agreed fairly tight timelines on my team's onboarding, in part because there ...
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How to deal with team members who are slow to respond to my messages?
I am a junior and I'm usually blocked by team members who are slow to respond to my instant messages. I had one of these senior team members tell me "Sorry I made you wait" after taking a ...
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How to politely stop a colleague's rude remarks about the way I sip alcohol?
We went to a team dinner where alcoholic beverages were served. However, I am someone who doesn't drink alcohol due to my personal beliefs. Since people around were constantly making fun of me, I ...
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How can I integrate to a new workplace?
I have moved to a new job at a new country couple of weeks back (India to Singapore). This is all new for me. Company culture seems entirely different from the companies I worked before. I am having ...
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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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