It’s also important to consider if sales come from recurring business and/or customers, or are one-time sales.
non-business but the recent season of the Dissect podcast was on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and he kept playing a soundbite from an interview in which she said, "I couldn't see my hand in spite of my face" I was a high degree of triggered
“Level set” is a term that’s being thrown around more these days at my company. Level set these nuts.
My company has two different types of software engineers. One group uses agile, the other doesn’t. The group the uses agile sucks complete ass and the group that doesn’t is good. That’s all I have
I'm about to be assigned a team and trained in agile. From what I have gathered it's a lot of running around from one side to another
I have no clue what it is. I just yell when they don’t have stuff done on time and they make it happen. It’s like they don’t read schedules. I hate them
It's what my company likes and the VP requested two new people to run a team and I was suggested so seems like a good way to ride up the corporate ladder if Im good at it.
Valuable skill. I’m trying to read up on it and develop myself. Basically a way of managing projects by breaking them down into smaller tasks to speed up project completion, and getting as quickly as possible to a minimum viable product.
I was given the option to do this(only 2 spots available out of about 20 rph on my team) or transition to a more job that is more structured and monotonous. I like to do things myself so this will be a challenge for me
We use agile to just have iterative releases, faster turnarounds, etc. Reduces the amount of time wasted trying to get signoff on a change or new feature
It's basically iterative development. Big things are broken down into smaller things to be done in short (2 weeks) periods of time. If you're looking at something that's going to take longer than 2 weeks, break it down more. This is in contrast to "waterfall," where you have a big project, work on it for a long time, and then submit everything at the end. Be prepared to learn to learn a bunch of vocabulary. Also somehow you're supposed to estimate the difficulty of a task relative to other tasks, rather than in terms of how long it's going to take.
Just had a meeting with my supervisors where they both contradicted each other and back tracked on what they told me and basically explained I’m not doing well at my job. Not because my results aren’t good( I’m ahead of schedule and on pace for a 50 percent increase from last year) but because I’m not documenting my outline for what I’m doing and not following the plan of my supervisor ( who failed his goal last year by 30 percent and still fell upwards). I’m just at an absolute lose. I asked if I failed at anything. They told me no. That in fact I’ve exceeded everything. But it’s just not the way they want because it’s different from what they are used to. End of vent.
If you're interviewing for a job internally do you wear a suit? Especially if you know the hiring manager and she sits 30 feet away from you, and you see her multiple times a day and say hi to her.
First day in training be sure to ask "which is better scrum or kanban?" And just watch the jargon get spewed out.
This cock bag I work with sends read receipts 50% of the time. If I open it from my iPhone does it send one?
Carrot and stick “Mizz1439, if they’re unwilling to bite at your carrot approach I’m willing to come in and be the stick so you don’t disrupt your working team relationship”
“Horse trading” was a good one I heard the other day. Seriously, I think that’s a cool idiom in the proper context.
Yes and here’s why - if there is an outside candidate, they’ll get credit for being in a suit and you won’t. It may not matter in the end, but why nit take a bit more time to show that you care as much as someone else with no current ties to your company?
Sorry I’m late. I know that we’ve been running laps in here around how we are going to take our vendors to the mat to deliver against our stretch goals, but can I get the reader’s digest version?
I just laugh repeatedly when I see my companies stretch budget. Here's our budget that we never fucking hit but let's throw out this absurd stretch budget cause whatever YOLO
I hate how mine constantly changes the target that we should be hitting every day in sales. It's an arbitrary number they assigned and they update it daily, and never can hit it no matter how good sales are doing.
They need you to put it in a way they can take credit for your success. Just put together a bogus outline and give it to them.
I view absurd stretch budgets as a sign of immature leadership. I understand the idea, but it forces people to take immediate measures instead of putting proper sustainable processes in place. Along the same vein, a few years ago one of our logistics guys asked me if it was possible to make delivery times 10 minutes earlier to "fool" his drivers into not taking delays. When I refused he tried to take it to his upper leadership and got laughed out of the room.
My supervisor didn’t respond well when I asked him why his numbers didn’t match up to what he told me they were last year.