How can I introduce change in my organisation?
- Patryk Oleksyk Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash
Did you ever feel like being stuck in a hamster wheel? Doing the same work over and over again without any engagement? The job that you were happy to have and brought you joy, became… just a job that you had to do. Burnout is a state where I would not wish anyone to be. For me, the worst period of it was 2 years ago, when I joined a project (still being in the old one) as a test lead, where the development process started 5 months prior. There where are a lot of issues with it: 1. CDD (“Conference driven development”) - implementing new features before or on the conference day, and after it. 2. Unit/Integration checks - we had few and the ones we had brought neither value nor information. 3. Ticket/task handover - It was vaguely described and there were a lot of shallow agreements while working on the handover. 4. Business and domain knowledge - was not shared evenly among team members. 5. Requirements hadn’t been explored - lack of time meant, that we lack some domain and business knowledge. 6. Our team depended on another team - communication between them was close to none. 7. Crunch periods - to deliver what was promised, overtime wasoverhours where required. 8. Dissatisfaction within the team - due to issues above. 9. And many more bottlenecks, that we don’t have time to deal with right now
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