Tag: management
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🗂 Evidence-Based Management Guide
It’s all about that Unrealized Value. www.infoq.com/articles/…
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🗂 Projects versus products, dependency avoidance ed.
> The project/product distinction is an important one for many reasons, so let’s touch on that here for a moment so we don’t conflate or confuse the two, especially since one is more productive than the other. Projects are delivered as one big monolithic thing, meaning that coordinating all the activities within a big release…
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Link: When Culture Doesn’t Translate
Unfortunately, the Thai manager told me, his U.S. colleagues usually didn’t send the agenda until an hour before the call, so his team was unable to prepare. And it struggled to understand what was said during the call, because the U.S. participants spoke too quickly. He also said that the Americans rarely invited comments from…
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Link: SRE: The Biggest Lie Since Kanban
That’s why SRE is a Big Lie – because it enables people to say they’re doing a thing that could help their organization succeed, and their dev and ops engineers to have a better career and life while doing so – but not really do it. Yes, there have been Big Lies before, which is…
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Link: Bulls**t Jobs (Part 1 of ∞)
“It’s too soon to have a good sample size. But it seems to usually work. I think it works because there is nobody at Mr. Smith’s workplace – maybe nobody in the entire world – who cares whether Mr. Smith brings a chair into work. Somebody wrote up a procedure for employees using special chairs,…
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Link: Defense Innovation Board unveils ‘Ten Commandments of Software’
“It seems to me that in our meetings so far we’ve seen many many helper-types — supporters, planners, document writers, and so forth,” he went on. “But it’s a very rare event when we have a meeting with what I would consider to be programmers. One of my most fun questions is to sit in…
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Link: Employee Engagement In The Digital Age
“Communication is essential to employee engagement. We are all plugged in and on our phones; we are always looking for ways to connect with employees electronically. In the workplace, it is the face-to-face that matters the most. The communication between a leader, a manager, or a supervisor and their employees is the most effective.” Nessing…
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Link: Why Do Meeting Cancellations Say “I’m Giving You Back 30 Minutes … You’re Welcome”?
‘If the meeting was for your benefit the organizer would not word the cancellation that way. That’s why you don’t hear “I don’t think we need to interview you so we’re giving you back 30 minutes. You’re welcome.” or “we’re canceling your parole hearing so you can go back to your cell and enjoy an…
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Link: Management Support in Agile Adoption
“In the global survey 82% of respondents reported that getting more support and commitment from all levels of management is a high or medium-term priority. In addition to this research, conversations we have with senior IT professionals all report that as IT has become ingrained in most, if not quite all, business processes it is…
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Link: For Women and Minorities to Get Ahead, Managers Must Assign Work Fairly
“For many women, the disparity in assignments comes back to what we’ve called maternal wall bias — a set of negative assumptions about mothers’ competence and commitment. After having a child, mothers come back to work to find that their best projects and clients have been reassigned to colleagues. In some cases, women report that…
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Link: Datadog log monitoring software branches out as DevOps spreads
‘Enterprises initially implemented DevOps within specialized groups that owned a specific application and chose their own IT management tools, said Nancy Gohring, analyst at 451 Research. “Then one day, the enterprise woke up and saw it had 50 different tools, and in some cases, multiple instances of the same tool, each managed by different people,”…
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Link: Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Win – and Neither Did His Campaign
“During that first month, Walsh’s disbelief and even fear about what was happening in the White House moved her to think about quitting. Every day after that became a countdown toward the moment she knew she wouldn’t be able to take it anymore. To Walsh, the proud political pro, the chaos, the rivalries, and the…
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Link: There’s a Trick To Getting Entitled Employees to Stop Complaining and Do Their Jobs – Management Matters – Management – GovExec.com
Getting jerks to do their job by having their peers manage them. Link to original
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Link: Don’t make the mistake of thinking the CIO is irrelevant – TechRepublic
“The world isn’t about to end, however. Yes, Forrester reveals in its “Understanding Shifting Technology Acquisition Patterns” research note that lines of business are taking on a greater role in technology purchasing, removing IT from the purchasing process in 6.3% of new technology purchases in 2013, rising to 7.2% in 2015, while IT-only purchases will…
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All the taboos about working at home
Working at home, with a family, is a challenge, as this nice overview piece at The Register goes over. You think you’re trading all those interruptions from co-workers talking about the sportsball or just complaining about the daily grind, but you’re actually trading in for a different set of co-workers, your family. And their requests…
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Getting Mad at Work Can Cost Women $15,000 in Annual Pay
“If a woman comes across as angry or critical, she is rated as 35% less competent and worthy of $15,088 less in pay than a woman who doesn’t rock the boat.” Getting Mad at Work Can Cost Women $15,000 in Annual Pay
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Want a promotion? Cheer up and be on time
Beards considered a career retardant: “For men, that may mean getting rid of a beard or mustache, since almost one-quarter (24%) of these managers objected to facial hair.” Other fun facts like don’t be a sour-puss. Want a promotion? Cheer up and be on time
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Coté Memo #000: No jokes here.
Tech & Work World “What kind of company do you think we are?” Here’s some excerpts from a FierceDevOps column I submitted yesterday. Quick tip: if you’re in a room full managers and executives from non-technology companies and one of them asks, “what kind of company do you think we are?”…no matter what type of…
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Coté Memo #061: On the tedious need to have an opinion
Tech & Work World Having an opinion, or not In the types of jobs I’ve found myself in over recent years – analyst, strategist, “content producer” in the form of podcasts and blogs – you have to generate a lot of opinions. The best actually seem to really care about the things they have opinions…
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