Oh my. If self-otientation is the denoninator then dont advertise your thing multiple times. Instead keep that out and Ill say cool learned something and come back. At some point ill notice the course/book/whatever and be more interested.
I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
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Re: I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
#52You have to build / earn your influence. People listen to you after you have a reputation of being "right" enough times, and by being likeable. Abusing hierarchy isn't it.
That depends on the cultural / politics health of the group. The likeable right guy can end up stomped because he's a threat to the wrong dubious people. Seen this first hand in some companies.
Re: I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
#53Re: I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
#54Only thing I can say is that, what doesn't work for me, is leads that just tell you how to do things. I completely agree with my tech lead, but also it just includes only his opinion and it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Is this my ego? Maybe.
Re: I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
#55I've made similar ones early in my career.
The formula of Trust + Intimacy + Credibility is solid, but I'd add: solve one painful problem first, then earn the right to propose architectural changes. Ship something valuable in the first month, even if it's not perfect. That builds more credibility than any presentation.
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#56I still remember when my previous employer has lost domain for like 3 months. Boss and his business partner have setup company and I have joined later. Business partner left. - I was trying to figure out who have access to domain X? It is not on AWS and by whois it is under some random registrar in Europe. I got just shrug from boss. Everything works so why bother? - After 3 years of scratching my head and try to rep…
This, many times this. If you encounter pushback from everywhere – leave, don’t spend your life energy fighting bullshit.
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#57> Technical influence does not start with a title. It begins with the visible impact you create.
That visible impact need not be entirely from your technical work. It is mostly from your relations, communications, the way you present yourself and the perceptions that you can manage to get from others. Infact, technology component is very little.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like a regular setup, at least this is very common in modern C#/.NET when you implement REST services. Nothing to do with Hexagonal Architecture, just inversion of control. There is a very thin DI container baked into ASP.NET and the pipeline. Do you have to use that? No, but it gets complicated very quickly if you don't. So any project that is more than a tech demo/eval uses DI. In other languages/frameworks…
I don't know much about C#, but in Rust this is very much not the norm. In fact, there are technical limitations associated with async traits. This sometimes allowed us a reprieve from the madness, but only sometimes. I guess you can write enterprise Java in any language. The entire idea was to make it easier to mock components and therefore easier to test code, however all the code connecting the components became u…
How do you fake implementation without using interfaces/abstract classes?
Re: I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
#59there's another dimension is how ready is the group to your ideas
some teams distort the meaning of things, and if you try to bring improvements (QA, velocity) they will reject it right away no matter great you are.
Re: I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
#60Don't rely on hierarchy. Earn others' trust as you would when you are an equal. Don't expect deference just because of your position. Although hierarchical decision making may be more efficient, it's an unnatural system and anti-social and easily generates animosity. You'd do better to empower your peers instead, and show them you are able to listen to them as well. Just like you would with friends.
Big pile of horse shit, every word.
Wasted years in previous company under narcissistic manager with the same mindset. The guy had official senior lead title and was calling the shots. When ther team became too big, he assigned most senior people as “leads” without the official title. You had to perform as a team lead in an environment where your decisions do not have authoritative power, so every small task became negotiation with every member regardless of their seniority. Also no salary bump either. The “teams” quickly collapsed and they hired official team leads from there, with a real authority.
> Although hierarchical decision making may be more efficient, it's an unnatural system and anti-social
Where did you read this? “Empowerment management for empowered to empower #21”?