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Grump posted:I work on a small team of 5 people and we don't have any designated team lead. This means that whenever someone from another department needs some front-end expertise for a feature, someone from our team gets chosen at random to attend meetings about said feature. Just ask him. Not via email but in person. You will pick up if he minds or not soon enough.
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Most problems are solved by imperfect communication a lot better than they are by perfect conjecture
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May 9, 2019 14:35
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Yes i did the adult thing and talked to him about it this is a non issue. But boy was i stressed about it
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May 9, 2019 15:44
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You're definitely not alone in agonizing over something that turns out to be a complete non-issue!
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May 9, 2019 16:35
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Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:as long as you do the leg work and make the problem go away no one cares. jira and tfs aren't reality. jira is such a loving waste of time
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May 9, 2019 17:06
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The default project layout and workflow in JIRA are completely idiotic, but of course Scrum says every team has an inherent right to get in the way of their own progress, so… I have mine set up with three boards: Triage, Prioritization, and Tasks. The purpose of the Triage board is to decide 1) what an issue means and 2) whether or not we should do it. The only purpose of the Prioritization board is to take only the issues that have made it through Triage and get them in the right order. The Tasks board has the usual Ready, In Progress, Review, and Done columns, with only prioritized issues appearing in the Ready column. As long as the Tasks board has stuff in it, I don't need to think about the other two boards (and the rest of the backlog). Of course, I'm the only developer here, so I don't know how this would work with an actual Scrum or Kanban team.
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May 9, 2019 17:31
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My experience of scrum/kanban/jira is that it only works if you have a terrifying Ukrainian woman in charge of everything who spends every loving hour making sure that there is not a single loving blocker anywhere and the second you add a task that is not up to scratch she calls you and asks in a heavy accent whether you want to ruin your day or you want to fix that loving task right now. Anything less than an Ivana, people get lazy.
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May 11, 2019 00:14
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cynic posted:Anything less than an Ivana, people get lazy. Ivana sounds cool and good.
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May 11, 2019 01:49
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cynic posted:My experience of scrum/kanban/jira is that it only works if you have a terrifying Ukrainian woman in charge of everything who spends every loving hour making sure that there is not a single loving blocker anywhere and the second you add a task that is not up to scratch she calls you and asks in a heavy accent whether you want to ruin your day or you want to fix that loving task right now. Anything less than an Ivana, people get lazy. Hey imagine that jira is just a tool that needs to be used in a disciplined manner or well managed!
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May 11, 2019 01:59
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cynic posted:Anything less than an Ivana, people get lazy. Not gonna lie, I read that name as Ivanova at first...
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May 11, 2019 02:27
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our TPM got stolen by some other, even more incompetent team and it has taken less than two months for our jira backlog to fall into total disarray. My manager with 12 direct reports and an ineffective boss of his own was like "It's fine, I'll just manage jira." He is not managing it.
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May 11, 2019 05:05
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code:Carbon dioxide fucked around with this message at 06:55 on May 11, 2019 |
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May 11, 2019 06:52
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A few months ago, we got a new manager here, and this guy is great. I'm wrapping up my first project for him and he's done 3 really good things that no other manager here has: - Full mockup done in excel to show what he wants - Responds with pseudocode or other equally descriptive info when I ask - Never asked for an estimate, just let me do my thing He's the complete and polar opposite of my manager, I wish I reported directly to this guy
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May 13, 2019 18:48
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My Rhythmic Crotch posted:A few months ago, we got a new manager here, and this guy is great. I'm wrapping up my first project for him and he's done 3 really good things that no other manager here has: Enjoy him for the month he lasts before it turns out he's got a creepy fetish and gets fired trying to cover someone in pastrami.
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May 13, 2019 19:42
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Volmarias posted:Enjoy him for the month he lasts before it turns out he's got a creepy fetish and gets fired trying to cover someone in pastrami. You mean for making everyone else look bad. Because nobody cares about the pastrami until pastrami guy makes them look bad.
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May 13, 2019 20:09
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Let me have my moment, drat you 
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May 13, 2019 20:29
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I'm curious what the mock-up in XL looks like? Of all the UI modeling options, including literally drawing boxes with pen and paper, that seems like the least intuitive. Edit: not making GBS threads on pastrami man, sounds like an effective communicator
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May 13, 2019 21:00
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Nah that manager is probably a totally normal, decent human being. That's why that manager won't last.
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May 13, 2019 21:05
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Carbon dioxide posted:
protected branch biatch. 
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May 13, 2019 21:07
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Xguard86 posted:I'm curious what the mock-up in XL looks like? Of all the UI modeling options, including literally drawing boxes with pen and paper, that seems like the least intuitive. Well, probably helps that it was a fairly straightforward CRUD app. He had split things into sheets, each sheet either having tables of data or graphs. The tables had enough fidelity in the rows and columns that I was able to work out the database schema. The business logic came mostly from his written descriptions. I basically recreated each spreadsheet in its own tab, with its own business logic. Using a spreasheet to mockup was fine in this instance, but for other developments, of course you'd need something else. But the point was that he had a fairly complete and detailed idea of what he wanted, which has like... never happened in the nearly 6 years I've been here. Edit: I remember now... the spreadsheets were at one point actual real things from the retired manager. The new manager came in and was like gently caress this, we need a real app not crappy excel sheets. My Rhythmic Crotch fucked around with this message at 23:05 on May 13, 2019 |
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May 13, 2019 22:59
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My Rhythmic Crotch posted:Using a spreasheet to mockup was fine in this instance, but for other developments, of course you'd need something else. But the point was that he had a fairly complete and detailed idea of what he wanted, which has like... never happened in the nearly 6 years I've been here. As a UI designer who has to pry teeth to get any kind of visual representation of what stakeholders expect, Excel is a perfectly fine layout tool if that's what the manager is familiar and comfortable with.
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May 13, 2019 23:16
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In contrast, here's how the bad projects go: [Day 1]  Hey here's this new project, very low priority, back burner, just something to think about. Okay, great. You didn't give me anything to go on, so I will need to do a lot of legwork before I can start developing, but sure, good project.[Day 2] I need tickets in jira right now. The department boss might ask about this project and I want to be ahead of the curve. Umm, okay so in less than 24 hours, this project is now a big priority? What happened? Doesn't matter, make tickets now. Okay well... I can make tickets, but, they'll be bogus. I need time to delve into this in order to know what we're making, ya know? That's good, just make the tickets[Day 3 until completion, repeat as necessary] This project is taking too long, I would like to skip beta testing so it'll be done faster Umm, let's not do that. I would like to add features but also keep our launch date set in stone ffffuuuuuu *sigh*Thankfully that only accounts for about 25% of the projects I do, but jesus christ, so annoying
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May 13, 2019 23:41
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Does it matter what tool they use as long as they get the point across well enough? Mockups are just that, mockups. No one gives a gently caress as long as they do their job.
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May 13, 2019 23:45
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Wibla posted:Does it matter what tool they use as long as they get the point across well enough? My point was that it would be really hard to model something complicated in XL, and was curious for the story about that since it was successful. Makes a ton of sense hearing the details.
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I mean, based on the positive description, this seems like the kind of person who's earned the benefit of the doubt. Personality and managerial style beats tool choice any day.
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May 14, 2019 00:32
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My Rhythmic Crotch posted:A few months ago, we got a new manager here, and this guy is great. I'm wrapping up my first project for him and he's done 3 really good things that no other manager here has: I just had this manager and they transitioned him away from the front-end team (my team) to the API team. And now I'm interviewing my eventual new manager. loving hell.
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May 14, 2019 00:56
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Grump posted:I just had this manager and they transitioned him away from the front-end team (my team) to the API team. Obviously, ask him for his excel skills.
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Hello thread! Lots of fun stuff I missed out on in the last couple dozen pages, but I've arrived at a good time:My Rhythmic Crotch posted:he's done 3 really good things that no other manager here has: And on that note, I can share a waterfall example: I planned to read the entire thread before posting. I did and am now posting. Success.  Buuut don't get too bent out of shape; I'll be joining in lamenting scrumfail, pointless points, inconsistent Fibonacciae, analysis paralysis, refactoring hell, and eternal retrospectives of the unchanging hive mind.
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I do consulting on machine learning with a focus on NLP. It's bizarre how the role "data scientist" or "ML engineer" has been diluted to mean nothing. I just did a project with an org where my counterpart was nominally an ML engineer but his background was in front end development and his contributions were largely parroting the info I fed him to management. I enjoy ML work but the industry's become so overhyped, I'm kinda hoping that it implodes.
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I got a recruiter email with the subject "Alexa, find me a Jedi Master level software engineer". I typically just ignore recruiters, but in this case I was almost going to reply and tell them to gently caress off with that cringy bullshit. It turns out, though, that it was from an actual Amazon recruiter looking for people to work on Alexa, so it kind of makes sense. I kind of laughed after I realized that.
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May 22, 2019 23:48
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It was a trap, it's well documented that Amazon is a Sith front.
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May 23, 2019 01:20
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shrike82 posted:I do consulting on machine learning with a focus on NLP. It's bizarre how the role "data scientist" or "ML engineer" has been diluted to mean nothing. I just did a project with an org where my counterpart was nominally an ML engineer but his background was in front end development and his contributions were largely parroting the info I fed him to management. We’re trying to figure out levels for our ML roles and looking at peer companies is a disaster because “ML position” can mean anything from “has an excel formula set that nobody understands” through “used SGD once” to “Jeff Dean blows me every Thursday”.
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May 23, 2019 01:37
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Protocol7 posted:I got a recruiter email with the subject "Alexa, find me a Jedi Master level software engineer". 
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May 23, 2019 04:18
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I've seen pretty sophisticated models in Excel built with GPU-accelerated C DLLs. It's also common to see fancy web front-ends with garbage ML or even worse, Azure/GCP ML API wrappers resold as proprietary ML. One of the better tells of a legit outfit is their attitude to data - collecting, annotating, engineering etc.
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Protocol7 posted:I got a recruiter email with the subject "Alexa, find me a Jedi Master level software engineer". I categorically refuse to work with people who think that these are cool.
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May 23, 2019 07:57
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Protocol7 posted:I got a recruiter email with the subject "Alexa, find me a Jedi Master level software engineer". This sounds about right for Amazon. It feels like they've outsourced their recruiters at this point
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May 23, 2019 14:33
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The guy was even tongue in cheek about it too. quote:Yes, I am fully aware you receive endless messages from recruiters (especially other Amazonians) “This is trite bullshit and here’s two paragraphs why I’m sorry it’s trite bullshit.” Yeah that’s cutting to the chase alright. Macichne Leainig fucked around with this message at 16:24 on May 23, 2019 |
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May 23, 2019 16:20
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Volmarias posted:This sounds about right for Amazon. It feels like they've outsourced their recruiters at this point 9 out of 10 recruiter emails I get from Amazon are from third parties doing these big hiring events for Amazon in the Dallas area. Much like every recruiting service, the goal is to toss as many bodies at employers as possible and hope enough get hired so you can get that referral money.
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Subjunctive posted:We’re trying to figure out levels for our ML roles and looking at peer companies is a disaster because “ML position” can mean anything from “has an excel formula set that nobody understands” through “used SGD once” to “Jeff Dean blows me every Thursday”. "Doing something with data" or "doing something with ML/AI" is the new "doing something with people". poemdexter posted:9 out of 10 recruiter emails I get from Amazon are from third parties doing these big hiring events for Amazon in the Dallas area. Much like every recruiting service, the goal is to toss as many bodies at employers as possible and hope enough get hired so you can get that referral money. See above. So they just go "Ah, look, somebody who does something with data. That'll fit the bill nicely...".
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