Reteaming

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Reteaming

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February 24, 2021 at 12:00 am

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skeleton567 SSCertifiable Points: 5868 More actions · Answer 1

This is an entirely new idea for me and one that I believe should be approached with an abundance of caution. The idea of doing this just because 'it's that time of year' or something akin to that, is very scary. I'm all in favor of the concept of allowing people to participate in deciding their assignments, as long as it is in the interest of the employee, the team, and the company, but I think doing this 'just because we can' could be quite disruptive.

Timing could be very critical, and I would definitely do this is stages as much as possible, even to the point of making the transitions as gradual as possible to maintain some overlap. It could be much easier to 'undo' a single transition that to fix several at the same time.

Maybe it's just my lack of experiencing this.

Rick
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Doctor Who 2 SSCrazy Eights Points: 8194 More actions · Answer 2

I don't see a lot of movement among the rank and file, where I work. There does seem to be a fair amount of changing among middle management. Redgate's practice of reteaming is an entirely new idea to me. I'm interested in it. Would love to experience it myself.

At my old job, because it was a small organization with only a couple IT/of IT/developers, it was quite easy to switch roles. In my current job switching to do something else is, apparently, impossible. I've spoken twice to my boss about wanting new challenges and to work on other tasks. Those requests have fallen on deaf ears. Apparently, in larger organizations with a couple hundred IT/developers everyone gets pigeonholed.

Rod

pwhoyt SSC Enthusiast Points: 164 More actions · Answer 3

Definitely pigeon holed at my company. No movement is possible outside of reorgs, at which time movement is not voluntary.

To move up, one must move out.

And that's exactly what the best people do...

Tom Uellner SSCrazy Points: 2995 More actions · Answer 4

We're too small a team to do something like this but I think for larger teams this is a very interesting idea. I am fortunate that in our small team I do many different tasks. One day I might be writing scripts to update or add new lab tests. Another I might be doing performance tuning or helping the devs write better T-SQL. And then, like this last week, I might find myself learning all about Azure SQL Managed Instances and migrating some QA databases up to a non-production Azure SQL Managed Instance. It keeps me learning and interested.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736150 More actions · Answer 5

We tend to have small teams at Redgate, but we have many of them.

Note that not everyone moves every year. Plenty of people choose to stay with the same team for a few years.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004309 More actions · Answer 6

From the Article:
I've seen friends at Microsoft change departments, products, etc. every year or two.

Actually, that explains a lot. While it may keep people from getting "bored" or "stagnant", it does mean that knowledge of SME's for any given product is a whole lot less than it could/should be.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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