On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> What about personal development? Do your managers play an active role
> in helping their reports develop with objectives, feedback, training,
> etc?
Yes, of course. There's a standard $ allotment for each employee in
the budget to support tra
So, Erik is best suited to speak for Engineering's wider attitude on
personal development: I can only talk about what I've seen, as an editor
who slaves away for our evil and monolithic overlords in their goal to
obliterate the commu-crud. wrong meeting.
I've been not just impressed but humbled an
On 5 April 2012 02:05, Erik Moeller wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM, George Herbert
> wrote:
>> Has this been an observed issue within the WMF?
>
> In some areas. In my view, a well-functioning agile team is
> self-organizing and self-managed, and it's a manager's job to
> primarily set
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM, George Herbert
> wrote:
>> Has this been an observed issue within the WMF?
>
> In some areas. In my view, a well-functioning agile team is
> self-organizing and self-managed, and it's a manager's job to
> prima
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM, George Herbert wrote:
> Has this been an observed issue within the WMF?
In some areas. In my view, a well-functioning agile team is
self-organizing and self-managed, and it's a manager's job to
primarily set that team up for success, hire the right people, replace
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> as I mentioned in a response to Liam the other day, we've been working
> on having org charts generated in a more automatic, scalable form.
>...
Thank you for that.
On a meta-question that raises - there are a lot of direct repo
Hi folks,
as I mentioned in a response to Liam the other day, we've been working
on having org charts generated in a more automatic, scalable form.
A contractor, Mark Holmquist, has been working on an open source tool
for this the last few weeks to do this. It's still highly
experimental. In part
