Questions tagged [teamwork]
Working with others to complete tasks or projects.
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How to handle a team that does not want you as team lead?
The team lead of a project in my company got promoted to Project Manager and one of the oldest developers who worked for 2 years on the project expected to become team lead. I worked in a different ...
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How do I deal with an HR manager who thinks I am not being a "teamworker"
I started work in the beginning of this year as a volunteer in a charity. I was working for a manager in the office and I was originally hired to help him on a project that he was working on. When I ...
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How do I deal with constant unfair load distribution?
I've been working with a boss for 3 years now. About a year and half back, as the workload increased, we got another resource into our team. I and this guy share the workload together. We are partners....
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"Smooth" coworkers you cannot talk to [closed]
The situation is as follows:
There are groups of 2 people, every group has its own workload to be done at the end of a working session. One of the co workers chooses "smooth" strategy to perform ...
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Are there companies that take into account smoking behaviour in their recruitment? [closed]
Even though some progress has been done with 'smoke-free' workplaces, in my experience co-workers - who smoke - keep the (toxic) smell with them, clothes and mostly breath, and also take their pauses ...
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How to deal with a lying teammate / superior
I have a teammate (technically my superior as their position title is "senior" to my "junior") who occasionally lies, or exaggerates questionably, about our team's progress when ask by our superior - ...
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Event director schedules events without coordinating with me, causing extra work for me
Basically, my boss and his peer (both are directors of their respective departments), don't appear to agree on a particular policy, and it's resulting in extra work for me, confusion for my colleagues,...
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How to deal with, or what to say, when team member always says "I Have already explained this to you"
I am a software engineer of 8+ years of experience and joined a company 5 months back. Recently, one new project was assigned to me, and my reporting manager has asked one of my team members to give ...
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Working with difficult people and processes that don't work
I work with software development, I'm trainee for about 5 months. Nowadays many things worry me in the team (composed by me, my leader and another developer):
1. We don't work with deadlines and ...
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How to not throw a coworker under a bus?
I appologize if the title is too idiomatic, but I don't know how to explain the case without it.
Short version(non-technical). I have a coworker who has for some reason or another not learned a ...
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Reducing information silos and improving communication within team
In the company where I work, I have frequently found that information silos are a hinderance to team efficiency. The team whom I am a part of is small, 8 employees. To cite some examples, when I ask a ...
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How to request senior team members to prepare well for the team meeting?
I have joined my first job 6 months ago as a software developer at a big company. I am the youngest person in my team (probably 10 to 15 years younger than the other members). I like my team very much ...
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How do I effectively communicate with a co-worker who has Aspergers? [duplicate]
I strongly suspect that one of my co-workers has Aspergers. We are both programmers and he doesn't have any issues performing the technical requirements of the job, but
I'm finding it extremely ...
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How to prove the manager we need a a new QA hire in the team? [duplicate]
Just like many teams we used to have a manual QA member. After a while he transferred to developer's position. We don't have any automated functional or unit testing. What we do have is so-called bug-...
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How to help a junior developer that refuses help?
In my team, I am the person with the most experience. We lack a strict junior/medior/senior split so we are all equals. I have been involved with this project from the start and because of that I have ...
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Working with "cowboy" coders? [closed]
I'm working on a project (gararge startup) with a dev that I perceive to be the "cowboy" type:
typically works alone,
deploys untested code in production
doesn't use a source code repo
makes ...
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How do I navigate around a difficult coworker?
A coworker and I started within a week of each other. We both interviewed for the same position and he is at a different level since he is a fresh graduate. We never had a good working chemistry and I ...
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What are the good and bad effects of following hierarchical structure strictly? [closed]
Certain managers and leads, in particular, enforce certain rules that create a culture of hierarchy. For Example, one has to keep his reporting manager informed before having any cross team ...
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Why can't many teams be self-organized and how to help them to self-organize?
Note: although the question talks about programmers, I imagine it applies as well to many other professions where self-organization is suitable: scientists, visual designers, etc.
I remember from my ...
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Giving critical information to a senior [duplicate]
I recently joined a project as the most junior member in the entire team.
As usual, our project manager split up the work to be done and assigned the tasks to different team members for follow up. ...
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How to work with a "fanboy"?
As an IT Professional, part of what I do when assigned larger projects from management is to meet either formally or informally with the stakeholders, work to establish a scope and a set of ...
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How to work with a supervisor who forgets what he asked for?
I work as a programmer in a small company and a small team. I am currently working under a senior supervisor/architect. The problem I face is:
The architect assigns work to individual programmers in ...
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Interview Question: How would you assess your own performance when working as part of a team?
I recently went for an interview for a job where I would be working as part of a team and I was asked the following question: "How would you assess your own performance when working as part of a team?"...
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How to not appear defensive when turning down requests from the rest of the company? [duplicate]
Our company highly emphasizes that everyone should do their best at cross-departmental teamwork and as such we also have 360 degree appraisals, not just from our direct line manager. People get fired ...
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How to ask a person who is not willing to train me because of fear of demotion to train me?
I recently joined a company as a network engineer. I was trained about systems in the site by the team leader.
He didn't train me properly. He kept secrets which he should not have, like log-ins and ...
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Management too-hands off and workplace is chaotic [closed]
Management in this company is almost non-existent. There are no procedures or processes and everything is up in the air. When new people starts there is no orientation process or training at all. ...
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How do I tell my colleagues that the codebase they've built is a total mess and their practices are ancient?
The situation
For a few months, I've been working with a new team in a new company. The company offers some web services and the team's role is to develop and maintain those services.
Problem #1: ...
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How to deal with a situation where team is unaware of my efforts and thinks that I am on the contrary, not managing my time well?
I am on a scrum team. my company has sort of a freeze period going on, where in there are meant to be no releases of our software product / services. So, though there is still enough work for most of ...
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Should both points of contact reply to an email addressed to us? [closed]
I am one of 2 points of contact for a team.
If someone addresses an email or question to both of us, and my other colleague replies to it, but I don't, then does it look like I am irresponsible?
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Should I quit my job if the company needs me more than ever? [closed]
I am a software and database developer in a small team. We used to be four of us in the team (four and my boss).
I had plans to find another job at the beginning of 2015, I'm thinking about this ...
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How do I motivate slackers (who are not on my team) to work?
I worked at the IT department of a company. This IT department hires 3 university students every 8 months. When I was working, one of the students (sat in the cubicle behind me) used to slack quite a ...
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How to maintain good relationships across the company when boss doesn't want me to help anyone except my immediate team?
Partly because our team is overwhelmed, my manager asked me a few months ago to turn down any requests for help or information from the rest of the company unless extremely critical to our own job.
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How do I build a better working relationship with a database administrator? [closed]
I work in a large UK company as a statistician.
In my role I have to ask a group of database administrators for key datasets. They usually tell me that data doesn't exist (when it actually does), ...
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how to mix up and be friendly with colleagues? [closed]
My apologies if this question looks weird but I really need help.
My issue is I feel it hard to mix up with others in office; and not only in office in general I will say. I like to be involved with ...
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How can I deal with a very lazy co-worker? [closed]
I'm working as a software developer at a startup in Istanbul/Turkey where there are only 2 full-time developers (including me) and 3 part-time staff (tester, developer, ux designer).
Yesterday I had ...
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Give team lead a couple of subtle hints, how? [closed]
Here's the situation:
I've been with the company for quite a long time working with same people. From time to time we're organized into teams to work on different projects and about a week I joined ...
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Work standing still, difficulty in autonomy [closed]
I am in a long internship at an IT company.
At first, I was excited because it was the company I wanted and I was doing the job that would help me for my future career.
But mostly, I was involved ...
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How to get remote workers to properly engage while working on a task together?
I believe pair programming creates MUCH cleaner code, much less bugs, better reusable architecture, and better team culture/bond. At my old job, I created dozens of pair programming setups in a ...
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How can I encourage structured knowledge sharing in my team?
I work in a six person team and I am the only remote team member. I have been in this job for almost a year and I find the remoteness to be an extremely difficult factor in domain knowledge ...
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How to deal with a difficult team consisting mostly of senior members?
I am part of a software development team working on a project that is about 5 years old. I joined the project as an intern almost 2 years ago and i am a full-fledged software engineer now in the same ...
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Team Lead is not working and delegating all his work to me and getting false credit for it [duplicate]
We are 3 in number (2 members and 1 Lead).
My team lead is a lazy man. He showcases himself as if he knows all stuff but the fact is he doesn't. He also tactically delegates all the work to me and the ...
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What is causing negativity in a new employee and how can I deal with it?
I recently started a new job, and am working as part of a team with two other new employees. The company is in my opinion a good place to work with high levels of professionalism and great employee ...
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How do I politely tell my manager I don't want to work under someone
In my company in-between managers and employees like myself are team leads, more senior employees who individuals don't technically report to, but do prioritize team projects and generally have the ...
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How do you expose your need for team interaction without sounding like a slacker?
I have been working at internships on and off for the past 2 years, and at least twice I have been in the situation of having my own project to myself.
The first time it happened, I was doing ...
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Being blocked from joining the main office [closed]
I work in a separate office, along with my manager, to the rest of our small company (total 6 employees). It is causing a number of issues including being left out of decision making, not being able ...
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How to manage virtual software developers without putting code at risk [closed]
Me and a friend of mine are thinking of hiring 3-5 people to develop applications for us.
Our concern is how safe will our code be.
We already have some of the code that we started ourselves, and we ...
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How to better provide technical pushback without appearing defiant?
My project manager directed me to do something that I know (and later found out he already knew) was not supported by our underlying architecture. His thinking was an edge case would fail for people ...
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Getting Informed Before Management Interviews my staff
I am a team leader managing several members. Recently my manager has been interviewing my team members for one-on-ones without informing me first.
I understand that my management has every right to ...
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How to tell working remotely is not working out and get reassigned to a team on-site? [closed]
I've worked with a remote team for three months. They all sit in a different company office while I sit in the HQ. There are development teams in the HQ but I have no work interaction with them, ...
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