Managing to Fail
Who You Gonna Call? Your manager can help you resolve problems and be your team's snowplow. With the right information provided at the right time. So of course you'll need to avoid this combination. Indeed leveraging your manager is another opportunity to spread the misery to other teams and really clog up the gears in the general clockwork. To begin with there's the classic "Have your manager call their manager" scenario. This involves ignoring regular channels of communications and ticketing systems and such like, and just demanding people on other teams do things for you. If you've left your infrastructure requirements or other necessities for an important deliverable to the last minute you can trigger all out manager warfare. Teams will be left scrambling and deployment dates will be missed - fingers will be pointed, management will be irate, and business will be red-faced-and-demanding-answers-as-to-why-we're-late-again. If you...