Avoiding the team. Has worked wonders for me so far.

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What’s your go-to strategy for effective team collaboration?

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Hey everyone, excited to be doing this AMA!

A brief about me, I work currently as a Director of Product at an Indian unicorn startup 

About my career: 
- Did my undergrad from IIT and then masters from an Ivy league school
- Have been in product for almost 10 years now - across 2 Indian unicorn startups and a publicly listed company

Would love to take questions on what it means to be a PM, growing within the role, building your career, and other things :) 

Will be back here at 4 pm and start replying
Shoot away!

AMA 🎙️: Hey all, I am pmsprint, Director of Product Management at a Unicorn in India!

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Hey guys, i am going to be a manager for the first time in a company that i have been working at for 3 years and I have people joining me from monday.. any tips for being a good manager?

Going to be a manager for the first time

All the People Managers here, comment below, 

What do you really want out of your team and for yourself at work?

Do you really enjoy micromanaging people and showing off your authority by hyper monitoring them and messing up their work life balance? Do you want to be respected and loved by your team or you just want to be feared by them to feel better about yourself? 

Using fear as a motivator does not really increase your team’s productivity you know?

Please enlighten me 🙏

What do managers really want? Fed up of toxic bosses

Project manager

How do you overcome being an introvert and managing your team ?

For an introvert how are you managing your team?

Security engineer

I understand different things matter to different people. I thought it would be interesting to understand the consensus on some bare basic requirements that make up a healthy workplace.

What is important to you in a company's work-culture?

Intern

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What is one extremely important skill/quality to possess to be a good founder?

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At HeyCoach, we encourage cross-functional collaboration, where sales managers offer insights to enhance the support team's performance, fostering a culture of constructive feedback. However, we recognize the importance of understanding the project's background before making suggestions. While not inherently negative, a lack of contextual understanding may inadvertently lead to interdepartmental friction.

Nurturing Cross-Functional Collaboration at HeyCoach

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I want to start moonlighting. In my current role I am a lead full stack dev managing 4 people and coding. 

In the role I am exploring there too the same thing.

I am also in a degree course in ml which is demanding.  

I want any advice which you have. 

How to manage time/people better. How should I approach this whole thing. 

What should I looo out for?

Moonlighting advice

Software lead

Our team has been mostly remote (8-9 members) but I do realise the value in offline meetings (formal as well as informal). Haven't done many informal offline meetups yet. 

Some members are in a different city/state, so calling them for a trip just to meet informally for a few hours is dicey since budgets are tight. And we don't do "team building exercises" online , I feel that concept is a little forced and unnecessary. 

Any suggestions? Thoughts on offline interaction frequency in general? Do's and don'ts?

How often should remote teams meet physically/IRL?

Product Owner

When the recruiter or HM opens up for questions, are you inclined towards asking them tough questions related to the organisation?

Lately I've started asking:
- How were people who were impacted in the latest lay-offs decided?

- Do you believe the team is at risk of lay-offs? In the overall org, where would you place this team in terms of business criticality.

- In case of downsizing how will you ensure that your team is going to be least impacted.

- Questions on talent being fungible, coding practices, knowledge organisation and sharing (hoarding/individual level, team level, org level)

- How does the manager ensure equity in workloads (especially useful for startups).

- Team agreements like stand-up timings, in-out timings, and most importantly, how often were  these changed in the last 6m-1y.


Folks, feel free to add to the list! Would love to hear your thoughts.

Managers are supposed to manage teams and be technically competent. Everyone is a champ when times are easy. The true colors are shown only when the going gets tough.

Most of the answers are gonna be template/standardizations. The key is to read between the lines.
If the manager is clueless or the body language doesn't inspire any confidence, then it's a red flag.

Asking tough questions to Hiring Managers

I have an onshore counterpart, one level above me. We two are setting up the project and conducting workshops. The problems I have are:

1. I work in the B shift from 2 PM to 11 PM since the client is in PST. But i login usually at 10-11
2. My onshore counterpart works in EST but logs in very late.
3. Although I work in the B shift, I often extend until 1 AM because I am preparing all the PPTs and doing research. I have to explain everything I do daily for 2-3 hours. She schedules meetings during the PST afternoon to present that work.
4. It has been 2 months of the same routine. In every weekly stand-up, she gets appreciation as if she did the work and research, without giving me any credit.
5. I can escalate the issue, but no one will listen because she has been here for 12 years, whereas I joined a year ago. She has strong networking with the leadership, which I lack.
6. I can ask for release, but I like this project and have provided solutions for some challenging gaps. I feel very bad because I work for 16-18 hours per day. She could schedule the meeting in the PST morning, but she purposely schedules it in the PST afternoon and gets the credit for my work.

PS: i saw her creating a transcript to read during the meeting

Do people like this really exist? If you have personal commitments, why come to work? Don’t you have a conscience and feel guilty about stealing credit for others’ work? Nowadays, there are many posts related to stopping gender-based reservations. Is it because of situations like this?

Struggling with Credit Thief Daily😒

Associate manager

I am working on a product(more or less thinking about it). I need to build a team of designer(s), tech folk(s) and a lot more.
The issue being ₹₹₹. How do you build teams that work on having an equity share and have an understanding of shared ownership? 
Where/How do I identify such people?

How to build teams  from scratch for a product that's just an idea

Business analyst

How do you handle creative differences with team members?

PM of 5 years. Same place the whole time. We have a new Engineering Manager. 

They started 2 months ago and at first they seemed like they were very happy to learn our process and products. Then they soon started to manipulate the Engineering team which was very cooperative earlier.

It’s incredibly demotivating. We are a small startup, and the culture isn’t great but seriously no need to be so dismissive of other people’s efforts and feelings. They are just fucking rude. No other word for it really. The problem is that they do NOT get the product side of things so you can’t explain anything to them. They start to physically roll their eyes when you go anymore product than the word “PRD”.

I have never had to deal with someone like this and it’s really stressing me out as they are involved in effectively every project I work on. Advice that isn’t “quit” will be appreciated.

I should also clarify that when I say “product limitations” I really mean how much effort goes into getting things right, the delays are shearing the roadmap apart.

why do Software Engineers act so rude? How to solve this in my team?

As a Product Manager, why do Software Engineers act so rude?

Someone else is to be blamed 😂😂😂

What is the best thing about teamwork?

Finance Operations

I am looking to join a Remote based QA Role and focus on health/finance/travel


So I have been looking for remote QA with tech Stack (Selenium, Java, Python,Maven, TestNG, Api Testing, Appium and SQL)opportunities so that I can invest more (No rent), focus on health (less travel time more gym time), and travel (planning 2 international trips this year).

For folks working remotely, please share your advice on how I can achieve this and if you guys have any suggestions for any of these topics, I am open for conversation. Thanks.

I am looking to join a Remote based QA Role and focus on health/finance/travel

Software Test- QA

For people who work in teams or build teams to work on projects, apart from the obvious skillsets to perform the job, what other things do you look out for?
I'm essentially talking about soft skills.

For me, someone who can articulate their thoughts and communicate efficiently is soo freaking important!
Curious to know what others think.

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