Signs you might be in "Survival Mode"

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Post by royosherove » Sun, Mar 30, 2014, 11:33 AM UTC

Signs you might be in "Survival Mode"
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Re: Signs you might be in "Survival Mode"

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Post by rexreed » Sun, Mar 30, 2014, 1:06 PM UTC

Awesome, short and sweet. I read this as "do the opposite of these if you want to be a good leader running a great organization."

Re: Signs you might be in "Survival Mode"

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Post by harwoodleon » Sun, Mar 30, 2014, 1:44 PM UTC

This could also be read as - "Signs you might be in a startup"

Re: Signs you might be in "Survival Mode"

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Post by pearjuice » Sun, Mar 30, 2014, 1:53 PM UTC

harwoodleon wrote: post #3

This could also be read as - "Signs you might be in a startup"

Or "Signs it is weekend". I was expecting a psychological analysis of human behavior and prime instincts about survival, instead we get this fluff.

Re: Signs you might be in "Survival Mode"

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Post by royosherove » Sun, Mar 30, 2014, 1:54 PM UTC

harwoodleon wrote: post #3

This could also be read as - "Signs you might be in a startup"

A startup doesn't deliver for long periods of time? Also, who says a dev in a startup has to be stressed all the time?

Re: Signs you might be in "Survival Mode"

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Post by tbrake » Sun, Mar 30, 2014, 1:57 PM UTC

All of these sound like symptoms of a total loss of control. Whether through poorly negotiated contract or necessity, you're in a position where decisions of any importance are taken out of your hands.

Not being the master of your own fate (edit: insomuch as you can choose what to work on and when to work) can be brutal for some people. I'm not at all suited for it.

Re: Signs you might be in "Survival Mode"

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Post by route66 » Sun, Mar 30, 2014, 1:57 PM UTC

harwoodleon wrote: post #3

This could also be read as - "Signs you might be in a startup"

I definitely recognize these patterns from non-startups. Ingredients: demanding customers, company led by former developers who still avoid all non-coding related improvements as enterprisy. Often it is simply the Peter Principle at work, duct-tape programming led you here, but not further.

Re: Signs you might be in "Survival Mode"

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Post by refrigerator » Sun, Mar 30, 2014, 2:05 PM UTC

I feel exactly like this but regarding my studies at university

Re: Signs you might be in "Survival Mode"

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Post by nisa » Sun, Mar 30, 2014, 2:34 PM UTC

Okay. That's me right now. How to leave the survival mode in the long term? I involuntary slip into it again and it again...

Re: Signs you might be in "Survival Mode"

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Post by smtddr » Sun, Mar 30, 2014, 2:36 PM UTC

harwoodleon wrote: post #3

This could also be read as - "Signs you might be in a startup"

I get what you're saying; startups can be frantic and match almost all of those points. But a startup shouldn't exhibit sign #2. No matter how crazy things gets everyone should have a vision of what the product should be and know what goal they're trying to reach.

I think a startup where you can consistently observe sign#2, without being in a UAT[1] phase, is a startup that's about to fail.

1. http://www.techopedia.com/definition/3887/user-acceptance-te...