But not terrible enough to issue a refund for the taxpayers.
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They forget the agile cycle moves from maintenance back to development again.
Makes more sense just to offer devs more holiday and less pay.
Really handy for foreign companies expanding.
Send a founder and hire a local VP who can translate to American customers and Employees. Plus close to SV.
I'm surprised Utah isn't in the council of American States in Europe. Or otherwise looking for inward investment.
No browser needed. No GUI. Works offline.
Surely that's simpler?
The government mandated exempt employees? Just curious.
Or if they need ever greater numbers to keep the benefits paying out like UK/US.
Immigration moves people about quite well.
Aka Pygmy Men breastfeed (some men can lactate a little) Most Women outside these tribes don't look for it in a man. Whereas there's do.
Social Services does take children away from there parents and raise them instead.
It's only culture that says just the bad children.
Colonialism commonly took natives away to be raised by society instead.
The kibbutz movement used collective child rearing. They thought it was the only way for equality.
Nuclear families are mostly a western thing. Plus we see more and more young people living together in shared housing.some in a family atmosphere. Why not shared child rearing?
Of course if there are good reasons then someone can provide them righ
Why shouldn't their husbands stay at home?
This just proves how stupid the label is.
It is literally "Middle Class"
They want to stop at the 'M' part in SME.
Then reduces meetings. As Jeff Bezos says "communication is terrible"
Perhaps all that chit chat and meeting time is put to good use instead.
While I say the world is round is the correct perspective.
Are we gas lighting each other?
If management was easy then everyone would do it.
How about this for a start? You taking total control of your direct report's calendar. They have read only so can see what meetings you have scheduled they should attend. You book the meetings.
Anyone who wants a meeting has to disturb the manager (so there will be fewer requests) and pushback will have more force.
It's not whiny engineer saying they can't attend the meeting. It's the manager saying they are too busy.
You could also send just 1 report to a meeting instead of the whole team. Since you control the calendar you can choose who goes.
Such as?
If that is the case. Then the programmers KPI and perfomance review should be based on how many of these meetings they attended.
Hell if meetings really are more important and add to productivty. How about paying meeting attendance bonuses?
No one will put there money where there mouth is because they know it's a waste of time to have a meeting that could be an email.
They need to look busy to justify their own salary
Plenty can. The CFO types look at profit per commit/schedule whatever.
A lot of middle managment types look at activity per commit.
The real issue here is that mangement by productivity data. Means most management is deadweight that can be replaced by a spreedsheet with the ability to send form emails to those falling behind on the metrics.
Anywhere else would be downsized, but management has enough power go protect it's own existence at the expense of the company.
That's the project manager's job. The more meetings they allow. The more the project suffers. The more that are missed. The less poltical power. So they need to focus on fewer quality meetings for the ICs. More meetings for the PM.
I would have if the item, I cared about was on the agenda.
This is why agenda are a) important b) should be sent out 24 hours or more before the meeting c) should be rigdly followed.
Anything else is either poor communication or a waste of productivity.
This gives everyone time to review the agendas. Making a decision which is worth attending,which is worth escalating.
Beside the manager should be representing you anyway.
>if you clearly weren't busy, because they don't equate coding with being busy. Sitting at your desk == not busy in their mind.
Coding yes. A skype meeting would be busy in their mind.
Yes. That 'maker' time is a 'virtual' meeting.
If you can schedule it with a name. E.g. TPS report meeting with Bob it is much more respected. Your in a meeting, so you must be very busy.
Harder in an open plan or Easy to see office
Works best with a couple of friendly coder from another site in the company.
Set up a notebook to skype with each other then mute it. Pop headset on.
You must be busy with all those people in that zoom meeting.
They will respect meetings with other coders in a way they won't respect make time.
Make sure it's regular on the calendar. Remember to mark how your most productive work comes out of the "pair programming meeting"
An outlet for unicorns that keeps them away from the company bread & butter and unicorns.
If he should have been. Then he should probably have been lead eng or something.
His authority and actions were mismatched. Management can change either side of the equation.