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Андрей Листочкин (Andrey Listochkin)
March 29, 2018
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Managing Managers - DevTalks iHUB
How to stay efficient as an engineer in small flat distributed company
Андрей Листочкин (Andrey Listochkin)
March 29, 2018
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Как управлять компанией, не привлекая внимания HR-отдела
@listochkin
American Company 10-50 people
US Office Sales Product Customer Support Engineering
Ukraine Office Engineering Customer Support Product
Move Fast and Break Things
Flat Organization
“No Managers”
No Titles
Meaningless Titles
Chief Product Development Officer
“One of our Marketing people”
Important but you won’t be fired if you ignore them
for half-a-year
Lead Platform Developer-in-Test
They write autotests and draw metric charts
They have to suffer Got “Lead” so they don’t quit
No real hierarchy No process
Ad-hoc Teams
None
Graph Theory
“Managers” Shortest Distance
“Engineers” Maximum Flow
How long will it take?
Find the implementer Question directly
Find other leads Get estimate
Get the minimal estimation Pressure the implementer
Rule 1 When asked about others’ work give very high
estimates
When will it be done?
List your tasks Tell your priorities
1 Production issues 2 Blocker for other engineers 3 Owner’s
pet project 4 Top task for the most important customer
My task is the most important!
Send them to talk to other stakeholders
“Can you handle that yourself?”
Nope
Chaos is inevitable
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