How To Know If Your Manager Is Trustworthy

Work with me → https://healthydeveloper.com/ Trusting people is getting tougher than ever these days, and nobody seems to have a harder time than programmers and managers. In this episode, I'll teach you how to get some hard evidence to determine whether your manager is trustworthy or not. The goal is for you to find out YES and just have a healthy relationship with your manager. But if there are trust issues, you'll have some tough decisions to make about your software development career. This episode can help anyone who has a boss on a software project (programmer, QA, DevOps, etc.), but since there are some unique ways programmers can have their trust broken by managers - I'll focus on that. CHAPTER MARKERS 0:00 Introduction 2:36 1 WHY DON'T PROGRAMMERS TRUST MANAGERS? 2:48 1.1 Manager Can't Do What Programmers Can 4:17 1.2 Limited Visibility in Command and Control 6:35 1.3 Hearsay 8:06 1.4 Power Dynamics of Reporting to Someone 9:43 2 WHY DON'T MANAGERS TRUST PROGRAMMERS? 9:55 2.1 Can't Comprehend All of Their Work 11:01 2.2 Past Bad Experiences 12:26 2.3 Remote Visibility Problems 13:36 2.4 Assumptions of Immaturity 15:30 2.5 Anxiety Due to High Cost 17:26 3 HOW TO LEARN IF YOUR MANAGER IS TRUSTWORTHY 17:41 3.1 Micro-Commitments 19:49 3.2 Corroborate With Coworkers 22:14 3.3 Corroborate With "Skip Level" Boss 24:55 3.4 Set and Track Measurable Objectives 27:48 Episode Groove #programming #softwaredeveloper #softwareengineer