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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2021 11:27:45 GMT -5
this mentality does not exist in Greece because we have no testing, no team lead (all are leaders in their own right), no project manager, no functional specs... no ethos to change anything (hence the lack of motivation to do anything about it, they know if they try anything they'll break smth else)
What you describe is an example of a "good" greek company.
anyway back to the problem : the chief architect of the product, ONE person should decide. If this (call him Project Manager) cannot have his way ANYWHERE in the project then he is incapable.
I try (among my greko beasts in my team) and fight everyday to retain this control, for a good reason : trust no one.
A very good american company rejected me (I passed the tech interview) because I anwered wrong to this questions :
A: would you trust the work of all your colleagues : me : are you kidding of course not, I always triple-check, thats what has made me so successful
A: is amazon or google "honest" companies
me : yep
A: if you screwed up but no one noticed would you say so openly, if there was no impact to the client? me : ehmmm I dunno, ehhmmm maybe I would discuss this with the director etcc
So if you don't plan projects how do you ever do them? The problem with that mentality is short-term thinking. You're going to fix something in your project, but you will condemn every other developer working in future on similar project to clean something that should not even exist, just because of someone's caprice. Of course, I am talking about really minor things here but its enough to annoy you sometimes, even more than some real bug. There are a lot of project managers who weren't software developers so they tend to listen to other members of the team, especially at the beginning of their careers, but only some develop instinct to determine what is relevant and what is not.
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Post by Pyrros on Feb 26, 2021 15:01:31 GMT -5
At our pace, one or two seconds of missing some telco or "whisper" in the kitchen is detrimental, I try to have my ears open all the time. Some projects initiated in the kitchens or outside the toilet, we are laughable nation.
How are projects done? By listening to the dog who barks the loudest. Then I try to gather all reqs and made them to specs, taking care we have no mutual conflicting ideas. Then I lay down the principles the philosophy, and I enforce this in the lower level. I know that my idiotic programmes are gonna screw up the app, so I take their inability for granted, and I pre-calculate this from the early stages, protect the data, the sanity of the system. Also, here in Athenso-land the local arbanians have a tendency to use the English language (even if no one around is English ) because this gives them some leverage, and some pretense of value, of being respected, or of a way to enforce politeness to others, or even exericse their underlying urban-arbanian passion for irony, they would die to be english just for one day, for which they find the english language more appropriate than the brutal pseudo-greek that they speak. As a resut of constant english language usage by ppl who dont know english, the confusion is even bigger than it would have normally been.
Lately I got a new person in the team, WITHOUT a degree who is SO clever and so polite and so devoted to real study, that I place ALL my hopes on him for the future. His style, body, mannerisms is totally BULGARIAN. But he has no Bulgarian or Serbian blood. Strange.
I dont know how to act, If I act democratically as I usually am, maybe he'll turn ro arbano-vlah as time passes by?? But arbanite mgmt is only good for arbanians, with real ppl I guess it doesnt work.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2021 16:13:18 GMT -5
But that's still not planning.
I am actually writing the plan, even if I'm just software engineer. I have to understand the project from the document, divide it into steps I'm going to implement things, make the time estimate based on numerous factors and then present it to my superiors. And other people need to do that too for the projects they work on.
Democracy in the company? Is that a joke? Its more like a smart and well organized army. The one good thing about smart and well organized armies is you can always present your ideas, and someone will consider them which I'm lucky to have such people working with me, but to decide by voting on the processes and the rest? No way.
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Post by Pyrros on Feb 27, 2021 3:41:06 GMT -5
democratic = NON NAZI. But any way I am still proud of what I have accomplished there. I mean fueling a business with comparable turnover to the GDP of Bosnia is not a lilly thing my bro. How many companies in the balkans can say that.. But its eating my soul away..
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