Working with others to complete tasks or projects.
4
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4answers
450 views
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'...
9
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2answers
714 views
How to become more receptive to ideas as member of a mob programming team without going against my values
At the company I work for we have just started mob programming, where the team of three that I am a part of all write the code for our project together at one keyboard, and we only proceed if we all ...
7
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8answers
2k views
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 ...
10
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4answers
1k views
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 ...
0
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2answers
468 views
New manager and old manager give conflicting instructions about helping other team members with their work. What is the correct approach?
As a software engineer have been assigned to a project of five member team. We all have our individual roles to a particular components. Sometime an issue arises in other team members component and I ...
5
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3answers
178 views
How should one be encouraged to ask to work in pair on a task which appears complex enough?
I'm working with a team of five developers working on a software product. The tasks range from very basic to rather complex.
There is no rule making it mandatory to use pair programming. The current ...
2
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4answers
671 views
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) ...
2
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4answers
510 views
How to cooperate with people not willing to go beyond just necessary? [closed]
I work in a big software company as entry level employee. In my team, there are two seniors. As of now, work is not very interesting (mainly documentation). As usual, my team does not like ...
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3answers
233 views
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 ...
0
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2answers
202 views
Making decisions in a group: discussing, voting, or else? [closed]
I am having regular discussions in a new team of five people. There is no team lead, we all have the same seniority.
When making decisions as a group, we still have to adopt a single method.
As this ...
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4answers
542 views
How to send managers for basic software development process training? [closed]
UPDATE: This situation pertains to my current one w.r.t. potential partnership with co-founder. It also however relates to previous situations in which the company I was in was trying to address these ...
13
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5answers
1k views
How do I encourage a more junior employee to work more thoroughly and do the job properly?
I'm a senior software developer at my employer and I have recently been put in charge of a more junior developer. This is my first time acting as a manager (or even a mentor). I've been tasked to give ...
4
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5answers
966 views
IT help desk extremely slow
I work in information security performing risk assessments and handling incident responses. At our company, we have a person that is our IT help desk (Tom). We only have 5-7 people in the office so it’...
105
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5answers
27k views
I accidentally did my colleague's work better than he did. Should I say anything about it?
My colleague and I both work for a small startup. We have been both allocated different sections of the product to work on, with different areas of expertise. We both have the same boss (the company ...
3
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6answers
542 views
In an interview would talking about your achievements be interpreted as being a bad team player?
I have been in interview situations where the interviewer had asked pressing questions regarding my achievements: "did you do it or was it the team?". Should I downplay and say it was a team effort at ...
59
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8answers
10k views
How to safeguard your trade secrets at work? [duplicate]
I work in the analytics function of a company, which has just started. The sales team until now were making their own reports from their data. Having some experience in the analytics domain I have a ...
4
votes
2answers
634 views
How can I tackle being retroactively assigned project ownership for blame?
I have a situation where, in spite of not being the project lead, I've been expected to do most of the project work, but without the necessary support and timely input from colleagues.
Much of the ...
4
votes
3answers
414 views
How to handle mentoring without giving orders?
I work as a system administrator in North America. My team is relatively small, and of our team members, I am the most tenured.
The environment we work in is very complex, and there is no formal ...
5
votes
5answers
1k views
How to stress the importance of communication to team members who complain about team spending time on meetings and useless discussion
In my team where I'm the team lead, sometimes a couple of members make comments that the team spends a lot of time in meetings and discussions.
It's worth mentioning, that both these members from ...
2
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1answer
537 views
How do I convince my manager that learning from books is as relevant as learning “on the job”?
My supervisor believes that only common sense and experience matter when dealing with work issues. He is not one for theory or 'book learning', but has an intuitive knack for the craft and a great ...
1
vote
1answer
266 views
Signals that I should stop trying to solve a team organization problem, as an intern
I am an intern and at work I feel like the largest pitfall of our project is the communication between the team leaders.
I am totally comfortable to talk with my direct superiors and my direct team ...
80
votes
15answers
23k views
How to admit I don't know something without making myself look incompetent?
Short version: I want to look professional even in the situations where I'm unable to help other teams in the office. I don't care about creating shallow impression of being more skilled than I ...
6
votes
4answers
605 views
How to communicate technical ideas to non-technical people
In my workplace I am a process engineer that regularly works with people whose highest education is a High School Diploma. There is nothing wrong with that, as many of them are very intelligent, just ...
1
vote
5answers
906 views
Are there positions like “Idea man” or “Solution maker” in programming/engineering groups? [duplicate]
I am a mid-level computer programmer, but I am very good in finding solutions for problems or giving novel ideas to create a new product. I also know how to design with SolidWorks or Altium designer ...
2
votes
3answers
412 views
How to deal with team members who are slow at working / getting back to me
I'm a programmer / IT analyst and I work with 4-5 people on a regular basis. Recently, I've been assigned with automating a fairly large task, and I've reached the point in my development where I need ...
86
votes
14answers
28k views
How to ask a non-programmer not to advise me on programming tasks
I have this problem with an otherwise very respectable colleague, who holds the position of consultant/tester in my team. Due to them being in the company twice the years I've been working here, they ...
107
votes
12answers
28k views
How to politely write 'I work best when working alone' in a CV
Usually in CV one would write how collaborative he is and how he appreciates a team work. At least, this is what most companies want to find in a candidate.
In my own CV I would like to point out ...
3
votes
1answer
494 views
Joel Test equivalent for a high-performing digital marketing teams?
The Joel Test is a great, simple way to measure the quality of a software development team. It's just 12 questions:
Do you use source control?
Can you make a build in one step?
Do you make daily ...
4
votes
5answers
1k views
Reworking code at work to follow best practices is consuming my personal life
I have nearly 6 years of development experience. I like to deliver good quality code, making sure to follow best practices and take responsibility for my work like any professional developer.
At ...
9
votes
5answers
548 views
how to handle and motivate a teammate?
I am fairly new to a company and I was assigned to a project with only myself and one other staff member.
He has been assigned to this project longer than me, but technology-wise, I am more ...
6
votes
3answers
2k views
I am irreplaceable but cannot do my job due dependency on incapable colleagues' work [closed]
I work for a small company of about 10 employees. The owner comes from an entirely different field. I was the first employee he hired. I used my experience in this field to help him build the company, ...
3
votes
2answers
396 views
How to deal with a non-communicative/avoidant workplace? [closed]
I've recently changed departments and I'm trying to learn new processes, as well as resolve issues in payment and coordinate on complex technical challenges.
However I find no matter what medium - ...
1
vote
3answers
588 views
I do most of my team's work. How to get the work more evenly distributed? [closed]
I work in a 2-member development team. We have been working at the client's site for a month. I have done about 85% of the project work, and my coworker has done the rest.
This coworker refuses to ...
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votes
3answers
417 views
Dealing with problematic SCRUM master/collegue [closed]
In Brief: I'm doing the same work all day and being passed over for more intersting work. I'd like to remedy this.
I'm a member of a small Devops team. Team tasks can be roughly divided into two ...
5
votes
4answers
836 views
Another team doesn't do their job and affects my team
We are a startup and composed of a few teams including IT and marketing. Lately, the marketing team is not doing their job and affecting my team a lot. Basically, when they cannot do something, they ...
1
vote
3answers
243 views
Should I look worried by problems on the workplace? [closed]
I always look relaxed, even when there are troubles, I look like a zen master, seeing my worried face is extremely rare.
I have a coworker which is always worried of everything, usually we are ok but ...
1
vote
1answer
182 views
How to deal with manager who keep leading project into wrong directions?
My current situation is as follow:
i work in a software company, mainly focus on embedded system. i moved into current company in 2016 and started as fresh-man at division X.
The current project was ...
2
votes
2answers
411 views
As a new technical lead, how can I evaluate junior (software) engineers fairly?
I have been the technical lead in a group of 8 software junior engineers for the past 4 months. This is my first technical lead position and it comes with the uneasy responsibility of assessing each ...
0
votes
1answer
178 views
How to effectively work with conflicting manager-type personalities?
Scenario: A team of engineers has been divided into smaller "jobs" with 2-4 people working on each with the purpose of combining the sub-projects into the one larger project.
Issue: My manager and I ...
2
votes
1answer
396 views
Is it professional to be too specific about a person's behavior even if it impacts work?
If someone is not using their time efficiently thereby causing extra work and delays to other colleagues obviously this is something to report to the manager to deal with.
But when the usage of the ...
0
votes
4answers
665 views
How to tell a coworker what to do?
There is a person at work who has been in the company for almost 5 months. She was trained by other people. The problem is, she is very lazy. She never offers to help me and she often works on trivial,...
3
votes
2answers
181 views
Uncooperative department heads
I am a department head in a mid-sized nonprofit agency. Another department head with much more seniority than me refuses to work with me. She consistently goes behind my back to her staff or over my ...
80
votes
6answers
18k views
Should I inform my colleague/manager that I get sudden “bad days”?
Some context: I work as a programmer at a large sized company in the Netherlands. I have been working there for nearly 2 years and so far (this is also my first job), I haven't heard anything negative ...
4
votes
3answers
363 views
How to motivate team to be more proactive on meetings?
We are in a stabilization phase of a software project, we arrange a cross-functional meeting every week with testers developers project managers etc, to facilitate better communication of the tasks at ...
2
votes
2answers
415 views
Unhelpful colleagues, how to handle?
I am currently shadowing a colleague as part of my introduction in the company in a delivery role.
Colleague behaves in a very insular way, does not share ways of working and ends up creating a ...
7
votes
4answers
968 views
How can I commit to a team decision that I disagree with?
In my current job, I need to work in a team who I disagree a lot with. It starts with basic things, like how to track our tasks and ends in big things like the design of our application.
I know I ...
10
votes
6answers
2k views
What to do when someone is pushing to take control of a hobby project?
I'm working on a hobby project for a game - it's in an alpha state right now and I have users using it.
For the past 9 months I have been the sole developer, but now I found someone who was willing ...
32
votes
13answers
8k views
How can I get a socially awkward team, which lacks good interpersonal skills, communicating more effectively? [closed]
I manage a socially awkward team and this is leading to problems with communication.
Ever since I started at the company, and before I managed the team, I noticed how quiet the team was, and how ...
67
votes
6answers
18k views
How to deal with a workplace that spreads you too thin?
I am in a situation that I do not believe is unique. Basically company A is a small company, less than 100 employees, in cyber security industry. There is a ton of work to be done, but lacking the ...
55
votes
8answers
17k views
How to deal with a developer that has poor skills but with whom I get on well? [closed]
I'm a Tech Lead since 4 months, as a Freelance, for an end customer.
One of "my" developer has really poor skills and, despite a severe amount of time spent to teach him and help him, I haven't ...
