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What would you do?

A senior stakeholder always bypasses you and goes straight to your engineers.
What would you do?
Jun 8
6
NO time to think. Just meetings all day.
What would you do?
Jun 1
7
1
Your engineers love to code, but hate writing documentation
What would you do?
May 25
3
Your Product Manager keeps overcommitting on behalf of engineering
What would you do?
May 18
6
Your team is demotivated by a lack of innovation
What would you do?
May 11
5
You’re a new Engineering Manager and miss writing code
What would you do?
May 4
5
The team doesn’t respect you as their manager
What would you do?
Apr 27 • 
Stephane Moreau
6
Your Tech Lead just resigned and no one else understands half the backlog
What would you do?
Apr 20 • 
Stephane Moreau
5
One engineer dominates every conversation
What would you do?
Apr 13 • 
Stephane Moreau
3
Your two senior engineers disagree on everything
What would you do?
Apr 6 • 
Stephane Moreau
4
You have too many stakeholders and they all want different things
What would you do?
Mar 30 • 
Stephane Moreau
5
Your team hates code reviews
What would you do?
Mar 23 • 
Stephane Moreau
5
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