Questions tagged [team-role]
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Is pair programming a team lead or a tech lead decision?
I am a tech lead in a team. I was doing a lot of the team lead work because there was no team lead up to now. The team has mixed feelings about pair programming. The main reason for this is that some ...
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How to deal with an oversmart/bossy colleague?
I am part of a team:
2 senior developers (8+ Years, including myself and my colleague X), 4 junior developers.
X is not my reporting manager, and my reporting manager doesn't involve herself in our ...
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How do I deal with offshore team who does not respond to my messages as they should or maybe it is not an issue in the first place?
I went through this question but the accepted answer did not adequately answer my question. Primarily it puts blame on the OP to be more considerate to the offshore team. It also assumes the OP is ...
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How to handle an employee being forced in to Team
I work in a small sized company as part of an IT Team of 5, which includes 2 software developers.
A person was introduced to the company by a member staff as a potential hire as a software developer. ...
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Tech lead role in a team topologies type of team [closed]
In recent years in the country where I am positioned (Scandinavia) the role of the tech lead in a 10 person team has been reduced. More and more teams actually don't have a designated tech lead. The ...
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I think I've received an unofficial demotion, how should I raise my concerns?
I'm a senior software engineer that has been working in a small/mid-size company for 3 years. Recently, my team of around 20 people was restructured. This lead to my co-worker (the only person on the ...
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Brought on as a senior dev /tech lead, project manager sees differently. How do I make this job work?
I was rehired in a senior dev role to lead a small team for a company I use to work for. I worked for them for 6 years as a senior dev, a few years ago.
However, the new project manager doesn't see me ...
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Hired for too high a level position
I'm an experienced developer with almost 20 years of experience. I have a history of being too weak in negotiations and getting too low compensation/position and then overperforming.
Two months ago I ...
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Team member who works alone
I'm a backend engineer (age: 30) in a small startup (25 workers). I came to this company 6 months ago and my team consists of 4 engineers and a manager.
A couple of months ago, my manager hired a ...
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Difficulty assuming ownership of a project from a colleague
I am a frontend developer and I have been asked from my boss to assume ownersip the project of a colleague, but it is not really official.
This colleague is a backend developer with hardly any true ...
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How to avoid conflict with manager when he complains for situations beyond my remit?
I am part of a small team for a big region.
Other teams, smaller or not much bigger, operate in other, smaller regions.
Together, we cover "the whole world".
I am working on projects focused ...
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Is it normal to have a lot of project management as a developer?
I work in a medium-sized tech company (~100 employees) as a developer. I work with product owners, QA analysts, and Devops, and we're all under the supervision of a few managers. Historically, those ...
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Who is my authority on a project - my own manager, or the Project Manager?
Background:
I am involved in a project, which has four people:
Three people from my same team
Me
My manager
Another person who outranks me, and who reports to my manager's manager.
Another person ...
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Can I conduct quiz among my team to evaluate their understanding? Is this ethically correct thing to do so?
In my recent position as technical lead, I came to realize that some team member did not have a proper understanding of the whole process or what they thought was, was incorrect. We have experienced ...
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My boss has put me specifically for customer support role. What do I do?
I am working in the IT as a java developer for 2.5 years now. During the lockdown period, my productivity got a little low due to which, I think, my boss has put me on customer support role which ...
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