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I manage a small team of developers on an application which is in the mid-point of its lifecycle, within a big firm. This unfortunately means there is commonly a 30/70 split of programming tasks to "other technical work." This work includes:
- Working with DBA / Unix / Network / Loadbalancer teams on various tasks
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It's fair to say that the developers would all prefer to be coding, rather than doing these more mundane tasks, so I try to hand out the fun programming jobs evenly amongst the team.
Most of the team was hired because, though they may not have the elite programming skills to write their own compiler / game engine / high-frequency trading system etc., they are good communicators who "can get stuff done," work with other teams, and somewhat navigate the complex bureaucracy here. They are good developers, but they are also good all-round technical staff.
However, one member of the team probably has above-average coding skills, but below-average communication skills. Traditionally, the previous Development Manager would give him the programming tasks and not the more mundane tasks listed above. I don't feel that this is fair to the rest of the team, who have shown an aptitude for developing a well-rounded skillset that is commonly required in a big-business IT department.
If I continue to give him more programming work, I know that it will be done faster (and conversely, I would expect him to complete the other work slower). But it goes against my principles, and promotes the idea that you can carve out a "comfortable niche" for yourself simply by being bad at the tasks you don't like.
What should I do in this situation?
See Also: "Is rotating the lead developer a good or bad idea?"
Answer: Get S*** Done (58 Votes)
It sounds like you are placing too much effort on having well rounded individuals and not enough effort on having a well rounded team.
There is nothing wrong with being good at something—in fact, that is probably why he was hired! You should be thankful to have someone who is good at programming to begin with.
You stated:
"[I]t goes against my principles, and promotes the idea that you can carve out a "comfortable niche" for yourself simply by being bad at the tasks you don't like.
If he was a mediocre programmer, then I'd agree. But you didn't say that. You said he was a good programmer. He's not being bad at the other tasks to get out of them, he's merely focused his efforts on becoming a better programmer. There is nothing wrong with that.
As a manager, it is not your job to make sure that everyone is "well rounded." It is your job to make sure that s*** gets done. And you're not doing that. In fact, you're making decisions that are stopping things from getting done.
Whatever problem you have, you need to get over it—you are making your team less productive.
Related: "How to lead a not-so-good team?"
Answer: Respect/Reward Productivity (23 Votes)
You are catching some heat here in the other answers for your decision to "do something" about this guy, but I fully get what you are saying. If the other team members "would all prefer to be coding, rather than doing these more mundane tasks" then they are going to be annoyed that you are rewarding the bad performance of the poor communicator by giving him just the tasks that everyone wants.
Imagine you are one of the "good communicators" on the team whose skills are comparable to the dev in question. You handle calls, work with other non-IT staff who barely know a mouse from a keyboard, write up plans for user sign-off, and more, all because your boss says to do it. The grumpy dev, in the meantime, because he has "poor communication skills", gets to sit back in his cube all day ignoring the users working on the "fun" stuff only.
Now you said that the grumpy dev has "above average" skills, but you didn't say he was the best. This means that maybe 1/3rd of your team, those good communicator devs who are the grumpy dev's skill level or above, are all feeling pissed off.
Is it worth losing some productivity from your BEST PERFORMING STAFF because they are annoyed with the grumpy-dev? You'll have to decide.
Unless you want to fire the guy, I suggest you take one of these approaches:
- Mentor him to be a better communicator.Only you can tell if this is feasible. You might find just holding his hand a little more might help. Some people are just terrified of formal business interactions and express it by being pissed off when asked to do it.
- Incentivize the "good communication," either with money or other benefits. Make it clear that you actually value good communicators and then your devs won't be so annoyed. But the reward has to be real & meaningful. "Lunch with the district manager" won't cut it. Neither will a "star player/kudos/attaboy" award that's just a piece of paper. It's gotta be extra money, extra leave, some flex time, some serious recognition with higher-ups who control pay raises, etc.
Answer: Don't Just Type There, Do Something (6 Votes)
First of all, putting blame on your team members... denotes poor managerial skills.
I mean, if he really has poor communication skills, I'm very sorry for his social life, but really, at work this isn't as much his problem as it is yours. And let's face it, he could actually just be bored by your dull work setting, or maybe private problems are influencing his performance, or maybe he's secretly plotting to kill you all.
Communication takes at least two, and after all, the one with poor people skills could be you. Nevermind the rest of the team members getting along pretty well, they could all be compensating (even unknowingly) for some communication deficiency you have and blissfully ignore.
And anyway, don't go around asking the Internet about people that sit three desks from you. Go to the chap and ask him if there really is anything wrong and if it can be worked out.
Maybe he just hates his desk position (is he facing the lavatories?).
Hint: Listen to the answer, like he's a sentient human being, not a human resource.
Try explaining him in detail the need for certain practices and the meaning of certain decisions, some people dig details, as they give them a sense of having a captain that isn't driving the ship into the cliffs.
See Also: "How do I succeed as a lead developer?"
Answer: Simply Stated (4 Votes)
If everyone on your staff has the same title/job description and the job description includes everything you listed then this programmer needs to have these other skills sharpened by getting assigned more of these other non-programmer tasks. Likewise your other staff will not have their programming skills sharpened if they continually have to work on non-programming tasks (use it or lose it).
But I still think that your main priority should probably be meeting your deadlines (which you might still be able to do while distributing the work evenly).
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Now, I'm sorry to say - and I hope you won't be too offended - but we're going to spend some time insulting you.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As Alfalfa) You make me vomit.
JOHN CLEESE: (As character) Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (as Earl of Kent) A rascal, an eater of broken meats, a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave.
WILL SMITH: (as William Smith) Your mama's so dumb, she went to the movies and it said under 17 not admitted, so she went home and got 16 of her friends.
CORNISH: That's Will Smith, as the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"; Shakespeare's Earl of Kent; "Monty Python"; and Alfalfa, from "The Little Rascals" - all experts at insults. We recently spoke with another expert, William Irvine. He's become a collector of insults, and he's put them in a new book called "A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt - And Why They Shouldn't." So which are his favorites?
WILLIAM IRVINE: Almost anything by Winston Churchill - what was it, Nancy Astor saying to Winston Churchill, if you were my husband, I would put poison in your coffee; and him saying back, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
CORNISH: Irvine's book, we should say, might sound like basic self-help. But he is a philosophy professor. He researched history, human evolution and himself.
IRVINE: I was very attuned to insults other people were doing, and I started hearing my own insults. They're very subtle. You don't even know you're doing them. But if you replay conversations in your head, you realize you said things. And if you think about your motives for saying them, you realize you are trying to put somebody down on the social hierarchy.
CORNISH: So in the book, when you get down to the why - why is it that we insult each other? - you actually end up looking back to our ancestors, back into evolution. And it sounds like you're saying that insults are their own kind of social currency; we're using it, in one way or another, to move up and down our social circles.
IRVINE: A hundred thousand years ago, on the savannas of Africa, if you were a solitary individual, you were dead very quickly. You simply could not have withstood nature, at that point. So you joined a group. And then once you joined a group, the question of how well you succeeded within that group was determined by your social rank within the group. So you did things to rise to the top of the social hierarchy that you were in. That got programmed into human beings.
So now, it feels good for other people to praise you or defer to you. And it feels really bad for them to insult you in public. We have that wired into us. And the argument philosophers would make is, if you want to have a good life, you have to overcome that evolutionary wiring.
CORNISH: If we are hard-wired to care about insults, then is it really a bad thing? I mean, is it necessary?
IRVINE: We're hard-wired to care about a bunch of things that if we actually care about them, we're in trouble. So for instance, we're hard-wired to like sweet, fattening foods. Our evolutionary ancestors who liked them did well in the savannas of Africa, but they were in a radically different environment than we are. So if you allow yourself to be persuaded by those tastes for that kind of food, you're going to overeat; you're going to end up with a heart attack. Same is true of sexual desires - hard-wired into us and yet unless you can have some level of control over them, you're going to live - probably - a life that's not the life that would be of your choosing, if you really stopped to think it through.
CORNISH: Now, with a book title like "A Slap in the Face," I'm wondering how people reacted when you'd tell them what you were writing about. I mean, did they essentially, respond with insults?
IRVINE: Well, I had friends who - you know, I told them I'm writing this book, I'm collecting insults; and they would nevertheless, insult me. And my standard response was, do you know how dangerous it is to insult a man who's collecting insults to put in a book on insults? Since the book came out, I've had friends who have approached me and said, that isn't me on Page 91, is it? And I would always assure them that it wasn't but yes, they were the guinea pigs for this experiment.
CORNISH: Well, William Irvine, thank you so much for speaking with us.
IRVINE: Oh, thank you. The pleasure was mine.
CORNISH: That's William Irvine, professor of philosophy at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He's author of the new book "A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt - And Why They Shouldn't."
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It is the comic book cover that captured the grim visage of an older, wiser -- and meaner -- Batman.
Now, the 1986 pen and ink creation -- drawn by writer/artist Frank Miller -- that is the cover to "The Dark Knight Returns" No. 2 will be sold next month in Dallas by Heritage Auctions.
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The Winds of Change
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~ Author Unknown
2016 will bring a lot of change. We had high winds this week just to make sure I'm fully aware that it's coming in full force. It's going to start with my blog titles. In Search of: has been quite limiting. I'm not good with limits. It feels like a child being told to sit still and be quiet. You can only do it so long and then the squirming starts. I'm basically a searcher of knowledge. I'm still searching with the title being implied. It's a spiritual search for understanding.
Last year was an uncomfortable year. I was glad to see it end. I've been one (well, maybe many) step behind. My "to do" lists were always moving to my "didn't get done list." I had big plans for 2015: Get organized, financial solvency, finish a lot of projects that have been waiting a decade to be finished, lose the excess weight and find a way to restore my health. I have stacks of books to read and I just keep adding more to the list. I think I should unsubscribe from Bookbub. It takes me to Amazon and then I'm sunk. There are too many good books out there and I don't want to miss one.
There will be other changes this year. Since I have been struggling with chronic fatigue I decided to have a visit to my doctor. Yes, I needed to shed a few pounds, (isn't that always the case) but a sleep study was ordered. Turns out I have severe sleep apnea. Even when I was asleep, I wasn't. So the C-pap machine will be picked up in two weeks. Medicare and managed care do not move quickly. Next on the list has been my failing vision. I can see the big things, not the details so after several trips to the eye care center, it was determined the removal of the cataract might help. It can take up to three months to schedule. In the meantime, the words dance across the page and I have to trust spell check to tell me if I've mistyped. Bear with me please.
I have been off sugar since September with the pounds reluctantly wandering just a short distance away from the scale. I'm sure they are waiting to see if I'm serious.
Sometimes I am. It is apparent sugar and I will fight to the finish line as I love to bake and I don't move enough to burn it off. That will have to find a resolution as well. I read everything I can find on how to heal the body. Sugar isn't on the list in any of the books. Darn it all. It's the one area that moderation doesn't work well for me. I'm an all or nothing kind of girl when it comes to sweets.
I'm looking forward to finishing many, many projects this year. My house painting in the spring, sewing and quilting projects this winter and maybe even getting to furniture refinishing projects that look at me and snicker at my inability to do it all. Let them snicker. I'm ready to relax and have some fun with friends this year.
My sewing and quilting groups are feeding my social and creative needs. Writing had taken a back seat the last year. Maybe this year, it will move up the line of priorities. My house took all my time last year. It's still a priority though more like number two on the list. At least for now or until the HOA comes by with a notice to get busy.
What are you expecting from this year? Do you have resolutions or just hopeful goals?
Happy New Year
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Children's Ombudsman calls for circumcision ban in Sweden
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The Ombudsman for Children in Sweden called Saturday, September 28, for the country to ban circumcision, a practice he said contravened the basic rights of boys.
"Circumcising a child without medical justification nor his consent contravenes this child's human rights," wrote Fredrik Malmberg in a text co-signed with health professionals and published in the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
"The operation is painful, irreversible and can lead to dangerous complications," Malmberg said.
In 2001 Sweden passed a law authorising circumcision, which allows a religious authority to perform the operation if the child is under two months old. If the child is older than this, only a physician can carry it out.
The law also requires the consent of the parents and demands they are fully informed about the operation and its implications.
The law has widespread support in Sweden and a proposal last October to ban circumcision from the far right party Sweden Democrats was rejected.
According to Malmberg the law contravenes the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The government estimates that some 3,000 boys are circumcised every year in Sweden.
In 2012, a court in Cologne, Germany said the rite amounted to grievous bodily harm in a ruling that caused international uproar.
The German parliament later decided to pass a law authorising the practice for religious reasons.
Studies have shown there is compelling evidence that male circumcision reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men by approximately 60 percent. - Rappler.com


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The Bush Frame: Us vs. Them; Good vs. Evil; Intentions vs. Consequences
Posted by J on January 16, 2009
President Bush's farewell speech, like most (though not all) of his speeches, was full of dispositionism and largely devoid of situationist insight.
His final remarks were apparently intended to remind and assure us that "we" are dispositionally different from "them" and that our country and its people have an essential character (good) while other countries or individuals within certain other countries have a very different disposition (evil). Here are some excerpts.
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America is promoting human liberty, human rights, and human dignity. We are standing with dissidents and young democracies, providing AIDS medicine to bring dying patients back to life, and sparing mothers and babies from malaria. And this great republic born alone in liberty is leading the world toward a new age when freedom belongs to all nations.
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As we address these challenges — and others we cannot foresee tonight — America must maintain our moral clarity. I have often spoken to you about good and evil. This has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise. Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere. Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right. This nation must continue to speak out for justice and truth. We must always be willing to act in their defense and to advance the cause of peace.
. . . . America is a young country, full of vitality, constantly growing and renewing itself. And even in the toughest times, we lift our eyes to the broad horizon ahead.
I have confidence in the promise of America because I know the character of our people. This is a nation that inspires immigrants to risk everything for the dream of freedom. This is a nation where citizens show calm in times of danger and compassion in the face of suffering. We see examples of America's character all around us. . . .
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In citizens like these, we see the best of our country — resilient and hopeful, caring and strong. These virtues give me an unshakable faith in America. We have faced danger and trial, and there is more ahead. But with the courage of our people and confidence in our ideals, this great nation will never tire . . . never falter . . . and never fail.
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In September of 2003, when President Bush addressed the United Nations General Assembly to justify the preemptive war in Iraq, his tone was similarly dispositionist.
Events during the past two years have set before us the clearest of divides: between those who seek order, and those who spread chaos; between those who work for peaceful change, and those who adopt the methods of gangsters; between those who honor the rights of man, and those who deliberately take the lives of men and women and children without mercy or shame. Between these alternatives there is no neutral ground.
If "moral clarity" requires insisting that there are just two forces — good and evil — and that a person or group or country is either one or the other, then I'm against it. As many others have argued, one need not condone terrorism to attempt to understand the circumstances that would lead to terrorism; and, as far as policy goes, to attribute behavior solely to the person and not at all to the situation may be to treat the symptom and not the disease. Moral clarity and the dispositionism behind it may simplify decision making, but, as we've witnessed, they do not necessarily lead to good or moral decisions.
President Bush seemed eager in his farewell remarks to downplay the consequences of his decisions and, instead, to remind us that he acted with the best of intentions — that, in other words, his disposition was good. At one point he admitted that "[t]here are things I would do differently if given the chance. Yet I have always acted with the best interests of our country in mind. I have followed my conscience and done what I thought was right." Again, his focus is on disposition.
To fellow dispositionists, the message struck a chord. Bill O'Reilly, for instance, had this reaction:
[President Bush] had the best interest of the folks at heart. President Bush is a patriot. He tried to do his best. I'm glad he gave a speech tonight. We wish President Bush the best. He's a patriot, a good man and I hope he continues to contribute to the country.
Eric Bolling, also from FOX, echoed that theme, writing: "Like him or not, [President Bush] has always done what he felt was best for us all."
As did Laura Ingraham (FOX News Contributor): "This man is a patriot. He's a good man and he wanted the best for the country."
Syndicated Columnist Cal Thomas went even further, praising the President as a "good and decent man," and then attacking the disposition of those who disapprove of Bush's performance (that is, most Americans). According to Thomas:
Democrats read the polls and their primary objective is power. As Bush's approval numbers started to slip, Democrats ratcheted up their opposition and Bush, a non-ideological president, was unable to counter their bile with his own sense of goodness.
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Part of the problem with the Bush presidency was not him, but us. We don't like inconvenience, war, or a bad economy. And when we were touched by each of these, we blamed the president for not restoring us quickly to our pursuit of pleasure and material things. Most television shows do not last as long as the Bush presidency and that's the other part of the problem. We project more on our presidents than they are able to give. Yet they don't want to tell us that only we can make our lives better . . . .
I suspect that those who doubt the good intentions of President Bush are few and far between. In other words, only a relative handful of Americans are claiming that Bush is an evil president. Such "moral clarity" is lacking — as well it should be. Good intentions may be desirable, but they are by no means sufficient to make a person a good president.
A situationist perspective does not focus on intentions. As Situationist contributor Mahzarin Banaji has argued, our moral obligation is more demanding than that: "if we haven't exhausted every opportunity to know whether what we are doing is right, it will be no excuse for us to say that we meant well."
Ultimately, the public's lack of confidence in President Bush is not based on a sense that he intended to leave the planet in worse shape than he found it, but that he did so out of ignorance and arrogance and did not "exhaust[] every opportunity to know whether what [he was] doing [was] right."
But one need not be a situationist to believe that the intentions of policymakers are not the sole measuring stick for the success of the policymakers. At the conclusion of his pre-war speech to the U.N. General Assembly, President Bush himself admonished: "Our good intentions will be credited only if we achieve good outcomes."
Considering where we have come since that speech, it is hard to see how one can say we have "achieve[d] good outcomes."
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To read some related Situationist posts, see "Jeffrey Sachs on Our Situation – Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part V," "Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Tenet: 'Guilty'," "The Situation of Decision Making," "Attributing Blame — from the Baseball Diamond to the War on Terror," "A Convenient Fiction," "The Law and Situation of Military Propaganda," "Um, I don't make misteaks . . .," "Some (Interior) Situational Sources War – Part VI," and "With God on Our Side . . .."
9 Responses to "The Bush Frame: Us vs. Them; Good vs. Evil; Intentions vs. Consequences"
January 16, 2009 at 10:20 am
I often wonder about the situation that contributed to Bush's dispositionalism or more importantly his "ignorance and arrogance". Bush didn't exist in a vacuum and his situation must have contributed to his actions — even if he thinks it is his moral clarity.
January 16, 2009 at 12:04 pm
I would like to suggest that dispositionism is not all bad and actually a very necessary component of social cognition (but very problematic in excess).
Dispositionism is something we cannot eliminate from social thought. It is the attributional style that makes it possible to hold people responsible for their actions. Insofar as responsibility is necessary for social cooperation and coordination, dispositionism is a good thing. But it must recognize reasonable and pragmatic limits. That's where exclusively dispositionists fail. Walking an ambiguous and narrow line between dispositionally holding people responsible and situationally excusing them is psychologically difficult. People wish for "moral clarity" because it's easy and reassuring to think that "moral clarity" exists and because it's just plain easier to think dichotomously, judgmentally, and dogmatically.
But remember that civilization would not be possible without dispositional thinking. We'd never be able to cooperate and coordinate social behavior absent dispositional attributions. Another way of describing dispositionism is "theory of mind" or Dennet's "intentional stance." No one would suggest eliminating, nor could anyone practically forego, slipping into the intentional stance. It's at the core of being a human being. So its a matter of tempering our dispositional dispositions!
Dispositionism and situationism are always in tension and always will be. I'd like to see this fact given more attention on this blog. Sometimes it's referred to as "the internal situation." That seems a little disingenuous and misleading. Please admit and confront that dispositionism is unavoidable and not necessarily a bad thing but simply a problematic legacy and component of social cognition.
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