Management sucks

In this presentation I teach engineers how to understand why management makes the decisions they make (based on business value), what is risk, how to take controlled risk, how to effectively communicate technical needs in a way that business can understand them and as a bonus I give a couple of tricks on how to negotiate salaries :)

Transcript

1. Management sucks Carlos León DevOpsForum 2019 Moscow, Russia
2. Carlos León Independent Consultant @mongrelion
3. Agenda • Tale from the trenches • Understanding risk and risk management • Resource Optimization • Getting Real • Becoming a salesperson
7. Risk
8. Hang gliding/ Дельтаплан
13. Budget US$1000 Team Members 10
15. Budget ₽63,924.5 Team Members 10
22. Optimization
32. The Load Balancer Problem
33. Web Service Web Service Web Service Web Service Nginx
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39. Optimization From a company’s perspective
40. Budget ? Developers 3 Operators 1 Designers 1 Projects 5 CompanyX
41. The need of a manager
42. Why?
43. What needs to happen? • Features need to be developed & released • Bugs need to be fixed • Platform needs to be kept up & running • Interpersonal issues need to be fixed • POs/Stakeholders need to be kept happy • Engineers need to be kept happy • Stories need to be written/refined, estimated and prioritized • Coordinate between teams • Attend meetings • 1-on-1s • Etc.
44. Management sucks
46. Business/Money Engineers
48. What now?
49. Капуста
50. Checklist • Can you ELI5 it? • What is the risk? • What is the reward?
53. • We are all humans • Help management take more controlled risks • Talk money • Strategize the way you communicate your ideas Summary
54. Спасибо)))