Is HR Running The Company Now?
Management faltered during the pandemic, now HR is trying to run the show.
We’ve all been under the thumb of relentless and ridiculous management doctrine from time to time whether it’s unreasonable work practices, unfeasible deadlines, or just being subjected to consistent waves of non-technical drivel and then being asked to ‘just implement it’ for the customer.
Over time we’ve come to adapt, too.
Mostly likely you’ve become an expert deflector of a micromanagement enabled project manager through deliberately tying them up with irrelevant and meaningless details (a.k.a. dead ends) so you can actually get some work done while they’re busy elsewhere.
Perhaps you’ve also realised that the product owner can’t even spell the word requirements let alone know what they are, or how they fit into any reasonable and sane software development methodology.
Most definitely you’ve learned to get your work done via leading the non-technicals by the hand to the land of milk and honey of elegant and effective solutions without falling into the quagmire of process overload — such as with the evangelist sirens that insist everything should somehow be ‘agile’ through and through.
Recently, however, something very strange has happened.
