Managing Managers - DevTalks iHUB

How to stay efficient as an engineer in small flat distributed company

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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
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