Senior leaders keep making top-down decisions without understanding our day-to-day work or what our customers actually need. They’ve significantly cut the team and then turn around and expect the same impossible deadlines with far fewer people. Cue shocked Pikachu face when we can’t physically get it done.
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@cy I like your spirit
Never tell leadership that you can not get it done; rather, request how the Leadership can help the team get the projects done.
Shifting priorities - well, which one comes first.
Lack of skills within and around the team - document and indicate what the team had before and articulate what is missing to meet deadlines.
Lack of resources, lack of leadership - projects could be done with additional skilled resources.
Leadership has to have skin in the game to make things work or enable change. If not you have FYI'd that here is what Leadership needs to do to enable project success.
Last Step - Care Less, of that they say and just do what you can do with the time you have and abilities you have been provided.
They have training all the time on how to "Inspire" you to do sl@ve labor work.
You can be assured that the mid-level managers who are left and weathered the storm care less now than they did a few years ago.
You are now in survival mode. I wish you well.
@qf For skilled work, best bet is to find better as soon as you can... your manager won't recognize what you bring to the table if you didn't know them in a past lifetime.
The company for middle to lower level over the last decade or more has become quite rotten inside. Take it from someone who's wasted a lot of time here... join without knowing someone personally, and you will remain an outsider. I advise all younger people or those in the middle of their career who stumbled into the company somehow to keep an open mind to better companies in the fintech space... unless you have a specific reason to need to be here versus anything else.
@a8 Thank you for the great advice! Unfortunately we have maximized our productivity tools and have also been taking advantage of and maximizing our AI tools…which I think may also fall under the category of productivity tools.
We have also completed our 60 for 6, but alas, to no avail.
Maybe we spend the money to rehire remote subject matter experts, and actually start following established agile or scaled agile approaches again?
I’m obviously joking haha
@de In my department, they have me doing a job other departments I found out Fiserv pay bonuses out for less work and outsourcing.
So it could be worse.
What are you talking about? We’ve imported all of these talented people that are better than us! Surely we should be able to hit our deadlines now! Oh wait… things aren’t improving? Time to layoff more Americans and undercut them! They can wave their deadlines goodbye.
@ax, I’ve wondered that as well. Lower review, removal of bonus or just removal from company? None of which, or even the threat, would assist in moving the tasks along.
60 for 6, get on board !!!!
@a8 I asked AI why I read things on this site. It said I should get a life.
What’s the penalty for failure?
You just need a team mindset. If you work as a team then you can get everything done by the deadline. If you hit the deadline then all managers in the chain get an increase in their bonus. Isn't that what is important? Teamwork? Now finish your projects so we can collect the reward we earned!
Don't sleep, neglect your health and neglect your loved ones to get the job done. Who do you think you are requiring work/life balance?! I'm obviously joking.
That said, depending on what you do, you may be able to put in the necessary work on the front end to ease your workload going forward by creating a stash of baseline and ensuring you're maximizing the productivity tools. People have also be underestimating what can be done with our internal AI tools.
Are you sure you're maximizing all out available productivity tools? Have visited our internal AI pages to learn about what's available and watch the training videos?