Re:How to work with people who pushback forcefully on team/c...
by withinboredom on Sunday December 04, 2022 @04:40PM
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There are a number of people who don’t respond well to “authority” and would immediately see you as someone trying to sabotage them and their position using your own position. For instance, this feels remarkably personal over something that is entirely a personal judgement. What is “small” and do both people have the same meaning? What is a unit test and can it even be tested? For example, you literally cannot test integration points of two systems in a meaningful way.
Most positive people who do belong in the team would be persuaded by your arguments quickly.
For those that don't, what you're missing is authority.
Go talk to this person's manager, and tell them this is not acceptable and that they're creating a mess for the team.
The manager must have the talk with them. The solution starts here.
And you can offer the manager "your help" to guide this person to "improve their performance".
And then since you're the tech lead, you can say to an egregious PR: "this PR is not going in until you make so and so changes".
Foot down, no cute debates.