Questions tagged [management]
"The powers that be" is often a phrase used to describe those in a position of authority responsible for work. Distribution of resources would be a way to describe what managers do though resources include time, money and people.
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When team members are busy in fixing bugs what can/should their dev manager do?
We have a release cycle about three to four weeks for a new release then a bug fix sprint to make the product stable, then new features sprint to kick off another round of release cycle.
What should I,...
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How to distribute development and bug fixes tasks
I am an engineering manager and I manage an engineer who is responsible for a backlog with long lasting development tasks and many bugs arriving a few times a week. We work in scrum sprints but when a ...
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Separation of Concerns between test automation engineer and manual QA engineer? [closed]
I've been working as a test automation engineer for almost two years now. As expected, most of my job involves ensuring that the automation (primarily written in Python) is operational and reliable. ...
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How to manage inter team communication while working on same feature in microservice architecture?
We are a team of around 60 software engineers divided into almost 6 teams. We are working on an ecommerce project and following microservice architecture. Each team is responsible for their own ...
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How to initiate unit testing when you're the grunt?
I am the newest programmer on a very small team of 6 developers, 3 of which are offsite. By "newest" I mean both in years of experience (drastically) and familiarity with the code. I've been ...
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Product owner and/or scrum master in performance review of developers
Currently at my company three people take part in the annual performance evaluation of a software developer:
the developer,
product owner from the scrum team of the developer,
head of software ...
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Banker's Algorithm for project management?
Is there an equivalent to Banker's Algorithm but for project management? For example you have several teams with different tasks and there is a deadlock, how do you resolve and prevent these ...
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Technical perspective vs managerial perspective in software failures [closed]
I am learning about various causes that lead to software failures. So far, two prominent causes of failures seem to be managerial and technical. An example of the resources I have looked at is this ...
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Two types of problems? [closed]
According to my experience, there are two types of problems:
For some problems I have been able to use some quick/dirty workarounds. Users are happy. Since the outcome quality has been acceptable for ...
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How to manage the team effectively on a self-managing team?
I always adopt a practical attitude towards agile & scrum. I am more concerned with customer collaboration, small/continuous release, incremental development than following scrum rules strictly.
I ...
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How do I prevent Scrum from turning great developers into average developers?
I found this also happened in my team although he may have exaggerated the situation a little bit.
Scrum is a way to take a below average or poor developer and turn them
into an average developer. It'...
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Large organization, different teams, unique tech stack or different ones?
This is a difficult question that can involve many people, it is a real scenario and can have real consequences.
A big organization with about 100 developers, working on different teams. The teams ...
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Making software defect correction "fun" [closed]
Where I work we occasionally come across really challenging defects, which require a great deal of technical expertise, skill and patience to resolve. Getting our most talented engineers to work on ...
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Information hoarding anti pattern [closed]
In The Phoenix Project the author describes an interesting antipattern: Brent is a super-important dev-ops engineer that personally knows the details of every new and old implementation and setup, but ...
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What are best ways to manage and keep track of services
We have an enterprise software introduced as SaaS model, and we end up with a huge number of services which are sometimes duplicated but no one knows, so what might be good practice ways to keep track ...
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