sv_throwaway

Re:Ask HN: What can be done to fix a dev team that has become complacent? on Monday March 24, 2014 @12:45AM (#7456756)

There are 68 people total in this profitable multi-tens-MM/year net revenue company and everyone outside of the dev team is frustrated.

When the arcade/gaming area is packed for several hours a day while everyone else in the company is grinding on their respective jobs and we are filing urgent, revenue jeopardizing bugs, complacency is the only logical conclusion. The dev team is the only team that comes in at 10 or maybe 11 or sometimes 1130 then have "hard stops" at 630 or 7.

In the org chart, I'm unrelated to the dev team, but have visibility into that side of the org.

Ask HN: What can be done to fix a dev team that has become complacent?

Posted by sv_throwaway on Sunday March 23, 2014 @09:47PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Our dev team is no longer producing quality work at a pace fast enough for the business. They're complacent. They give estimates of days versus hours for even the simplest of asks, and when outsiders hear how long it took for our team to fix a bug or add a new feature, they are shocked.Extremely competitive pay, free food at the office, catered meals daily, activities, video game areas, arcade,...

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