Managing Managers - DevTalks iHUB

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1. None

2. Как управлять компанией, не привлекая внимания HR-отдела

3. @listochkin

4. American Company 10-50 people

5. US Office Sales Product Customer Support Engineering

6. Ukraine Office Engineering Customer Support Product

7. Move Fast and Break Things

8. Flat Organization

9. “No Managers”

10. No Titles

11. Meaningless Titles

12. Chief Product Development Officer

13. “One of our Marketing people”

14. Important but you won’t be fired if you ignore them

    for half-a-year

15. Lead Platform Developer-in-Test

16. They write autotests and draw metric charts

17. They have to suffer Got “Lead” so they don’t quit

18. No real hierarchy No process

19. Ad-hoc Teams

20. None

21. Graph Theory

22. “Managers” Shortest Distance

23. “Engineers” Maximum Flow

24. How long will it take?

25. Find the implementer Question directly

26. Find other leads Get estimate

27. Get the minimal estimation Pressure the implementer

28. Rule 1 When asked about others’ work give very high

    estimates

29. When will it be done?

30. List your tasks Tell your priorities

31. 1 Production issues 2 Blocker for other engineers 3 Owner’s

    pet project 4 Top task for the most important customer

32. My task is the most important!

33. Send them to talk to other stakeholders

34. “Can you handle that yourself?”

35. Nope

36. Chaos is inevitable

37. Talk more