Cat HicksSo here's one of the things I'm super interested in that's coming out of our recent pilot research with software teams: there's a big difference between "things that are hard, but we're good at solving them" and "things that are hard, in a way that absolutely kills our motivation."
Greg@grimalkina Love this whole thread. Reminds me of why I love senior tech and managing tech teams but find the interaction as a lead with non-tech teams an exhausting mix of advocacy, negotiating, office politics, spending months building trust, and other things I can do but don’t especially care for. I could summarise it by describing it as “spending my precious life energy compensating for certain people’s personalities”. Hence I stick to senior but not lead roles that maximises my time with tech folks and customers and solutions and minimises my time with executives and their silly random whims and egos.
@greg phew, a lot of important stories in what you just summed up... I'm super curious if you've ever experienced someone on "the other side" creating allyship with you from outside of the tech community that feels like the world you want to live in... Maybe not but wondering if you've seen it done right vs this demand for constant compensation!
@grimalkina Absolutely. Humans are a real mixed bag. I’ve encountered some brilliant folks from all disciplines. I could put together a dream team of people who are good at what they do and work perfectly well with others. But it’s like bad apples. If I’m a tech lead, it only takes one bully from amongst all the other leads in a company to ruin my working day and if I’m not the company owner I don’t get to fire them so how long do I have to put up with being in high school? This has never happened to me inside a tech team, sheltered by the lead. Most people IN tech teams that I’ve worked with are focused on the work and getting the best outcomes, not on how good they look in the yearly budget, in a super healthy way. I love that about tech teams. The rare exceptions are imminently avoidable too. I guess with tech, people have to prove their words and bullshit eventually ends up walking out the door.