{"id":1132,"date":"2013-07-18T16:39:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T16:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agilepartnership.com\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2013-07-18T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T16:39:29","slug":"top-signs-you-work-in-a-dysfunctional-it-environment-a-pair-brain-dump-with-louis-philippe-carignan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agilepartnership.com\/fr\/top-signs-you-work-in-a-dysfunctional-it-environment-a-pair-brain-dump-with-louis-philippe-carignan\/","title":{"rendered":"Top signs you work in a dysfunctional IT environment \u2013 A pair-brain dump with Louis-Philippe Carignan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since this is our first attempt at a collaborative post, Louis-Philippe Carignan<\/a> and I<\/a> decided to keep it small and simple by writing a top 10 list. As you’ll notice, the list got away from us! It has become a brain dump of the dysfunctions we\u2019ve observed in various IT environments along our coaching careers. We also added a few tongue-in-cheek items \ud83d\ude09
\n\"brokenGears\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Top signs you work in a dysfunctional IT environment:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Individuals are identified the same way as a printer: as resources<\/li>\n
  2. Face to face communication is considered redundant if a document is available<\/li>\n
  3. A mistake is noted and regurgitated during the annual performance review.<\/li>\n
  4. A certification is the first measure of competence, but actual competence is a close second.<\/li>\n
  5. The manager keeps saying, \u201cthe team needs to change\u201d.<\/li>\n
  6. When the team moves into the Storming phase, disciplinary measures are taken.<\/li>\n
  7. The Architect or Team Lead decides how long something will take.<\/li>\n
  8. Doing more in less time is seen as a cool challenge and motivational tool by management.<\/li>\n
  9. \u201cGenerate more revenue\u201d or \u201cdestroy the competition\u201d are part of the Mission Statement.<\/li>\n
  10. Looks and business clothes are promoted over innovative ideas.<\/li>\n
  11. The analytical introverts are crushed by the driving extroverts.<\/li>\n
  12. Management laughs at developers who dream of working at Google someday.<\/li>\n
  13. Status quo is the strategy.<\/li>\n
  14. Overheard: He\u2019s not complacent. He\u2019s a good team player.<\/li>\n
  15. Overheard: There is no place for emotions in business.<\/li>\n
  16. The EQ test application crashed trying to generate a negative value.<\/li>\n
  17. Your manager looks the other way when you pass him in the hallway.<\/li>\n
  18. Technical debt is taken care of by maintenance because the project has to stay on budget.<\/li>\n
  19. Cubicle farms here, there, everywhere.<\/li>\n
  20. It\u2019s called happy hour when really it’s denial, lay blame, justify, and shame hour.<\/li>\n
  21. \u00a0Management loves to quote passages from \u201cThe Principles of Scientific Management\u201d<\/li>\n
  22. Soft skills training for management???<\/li>\n
  23. The project manager reassures the client that everything<\/em>\u00a0will be delivered on budget and on time.<\/li>\n
  24. Big visible charts are taken down because it doesn\u2019t look \u201cprofessional\u201d.<\/li>\n
  25. The less you code, the better you are paid.<\/li>\n
  26. To get your idea across to another silo, you need to go up the food chain until the VPs of each silo talk to each other.<\/li>\n
  27. Coders are seen as the bottom of the food chain.<\/li>\n
  28. In the hallway you often hear, \u201conly 2 more days before the weekend\u201d.<\/li>\n
  29. \u201cFun\u201d is what you do at the country club. You work at the office.<\/li>\n
  30. Meetings extend their time boxes. Decisions are never made. No accountability.<\/li>\n
  31. Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) are seen as irresponsible.<\/li>\n
  32. Transparency feels like rubbing alcohol\u00a0on a open wound.<\/li>\n
  33. The Director spreads Agile in every team like fairy dust.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What have you observed?<\/p>\n

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    Since this is our first attempt at a collaborative post, Louis-Philippe Carignan and I decided to keep it small and simple by writing a top 10 list. As you’ll notice, the list got away from us! It has become a brain dump of the dysfunctions we\u2019ve observed in various IT environments along our coaching careers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilepartnership.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilepartnership.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilepartnership.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilepartnership.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilepartnership.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agilepartnership.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilepartnership.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilepartnership.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilepartnership.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}