Need Productivity Recommendations for AWS Team
Hello everyone, I’m currently a manager in an org at AWS. As of recent my team is not performing to the standard set by management and rather than go through a standard PIP process, leadership and I are looking at ways to improve productivity on the team. Please let me know your thoughts below
1) Implement a voting system of who was the least effective on the team during the current week. Person with the most votes get an extra week of on call along with double the sprint work for the following two weeks. Person with the least votes will be given a Starbucks gift card or some way to compensate
2) Increase workload on sprints for all developers by 1.5x. Any tickets that haven’t been finished will be counted, reported to upper management and workload will be increased beyond 1.5x the following sprint to encourage productivity
3) Implement on call for the entire team 24/7 instead of a standard rotation to improve productivity
We’ve agreed that these policies will benefit the developers on the team and put them in a position for strong growth in AWS. Please give your thoughts on which one of these would be best
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If not, you are a sick f*€k and shouldn’t manage people (or be allowed near people or animals for that matter). And *your* managers should all be fired.
You can’t motivate a team with punishment. Also, if you need the team to identify who isn’t performing, you aren’t doing *your* job.
Threatening people doesn’t work, especially when there is such demand for SWEs. I hope your team all quits. You don’t deserve them. I’d be happy to hire them and provide proper management so they can grow.
If this is a troll, well done!
Glad I am leaving this toxic culture soon.
It's so far off from what you should to be doing that I don't even know where to start.
So I'll just say this:
1) You CANNOT motivate people long tern with fear, threats or sanctions.
2) You CAN motivate people by speaking to them rationally, setting common goals for them to reach and rewarding them when they do.
Assuming you are not a troll, you should seriously consider taking a managing for dummies class or better yet, step down from people management.
We’ve tried your second approach but with the lack of resources and our ambitious roadmap for the OP1 and OP2, milestones will not be met. This means we have to drive velocity up from what we have. I wish it could have been another way.