List: Manager Musings | Curated by Derek Power

Jan 17, 2022
12 stories
Manager MusingsArticles on management techniques you don't see taught.
Derek Power
Don’t Fear the BeeperOn-call is, sadly, part and parcel of some roles in IT. Historically it has been mainly the Network Operations Centre (NOC) and Operations…
Jan 17, 2022
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Jan 17, 2022
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Negative ManagementRecently I was catching up with a friend who had changed jobs a few months prior. They were telling me that they were enjoying the work…
Aug 29, 2021
Aug 29, 2021
Derek Power
Probation is a two-way streetHere’s the dirty, dirty, secret that the corporate world doesn’t like people knowing: probation periods work both ways.
Jul 17, 2021
Jul 17, 2021
Derek Power
The WFH Revolution will not be Twitch StreamedDisclaimer: I have read a number of comments on this topic that all say the same thing so let’s get it out of the way now — No, not all…
Jun 24, 2021
Jun 24, 2021
Derek Power
Publicly Apologize, Privately ChastiseEarly on in my working life I learned a valuable lesson that has stuck with me ever since: You should chastise people in private, but…
Oct 26, 2020
Oct 26, 2020
Derek Power
Manager is Latin for…Not many people know this but the word ‘manager’ comes from the Latin verb meaning ‘to monitor your people’.
Oct 17, 2020
Oct 17, 2020
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Rant off a Manager’s BackIn a previous post, I mentioned how it is important for managers to be able to listen to their employees during review time. I highlighted…
Sep 14, 2020
Sep 14, 2020
Derek Power
Keep Crunch In The Breakfast BowlA crunch schedule is something that is sometimes unavoidable, but as managers we have to try and not allow Crunch Culture become The…
Aug 24, 2020
Aug 24, 2020
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Quarterly QuestionsA little known fact about Quarterly Review Time: your manager probably wants to avoid doing the one-to-one part of a quarterly review as…
Jul 25, 2020
Jul 25, 2020
Derek Power
I don’t trust my team to work remotelyFull disclosure, the title is pure click-bait. I trust my team to work remotely, of course I do. As an SRE team most of their job is…
Jul 13, 2020
Jul 13, 2020
Derek Power
Incident Management — AutomatedIt’s 3AM and <insert name of alert app> has woken you up from the deepest of sleeps. You’re on-call, this is the curse of the job. Through…
Jun 27, 2020
Jun 27, 2020
Derek Power
Just because you’re a manager doesn’t mean you stop being an SREAutomate Everything: this is the tenet of SRE the world over. Any SRE worth their salt looks at their list of daily tasks and thinks about…
Jun 10, 2020
Jun 10, 2020