Leadership does not see value in standard process for machine configuration and new developer orientation
About 3 months ago our lead web developer and designer(same person) left the company, greener pastures was the reason for leaving. Good for them I say. My problem is that his department was completely undocumented. Things have been tough since the lead left, there is a lot of knowledge both theoretical knowledge we use to quote new projects and technical/implementation knowledge of our existing products that we have lost as a result of his departure. My normal role is as a product manager (for our products themselves) and as a business analyst for some of our project based consulting work. I’ve taught myself to code over the past year and in an effort to continue moving forward I’ve taken on the task of setting my laptop up as a development machine with hopes of implementing some of the easier feature requests and fixing some of the no brainer bugs that get submitted into our ticketing system. But, no one knows how to take a fresh Windows machine and configure it to work seamlessly with our production apps.
Advice for Setting up an On-Call Team
I’m leading a largish development team (~35 developers). We are doing primarily Web Development work on a number of sites.
How to you manage bad leadership team?
I am in a team to research new tools and services. My team already produced a lot of research findings, and are ahread of the schedule to finish the research, then will start a POC. We have a product manager who reported the progress to the directors. Then suddenly, we had a meeting with mana and directors, and directors told us they don’t want to read out findings, they want recommendations how to use these new tools, and they also want a POC to show how the new system work.
The POC was expected later this year, but at the meeting,the management asked if we can deliver one by July?
Does it sound crazy to you? I haven’t worked with the leadership for new product from 0-1, but I think it is poorly managed and unrealistic project management style.