operating system

questions

At the end of an internship, a manager told me: "your greatest quality is asking questions and never jumping into the solution without having perfectly understood the problem".

I've strived to cultivate this quality. Expect to find it if we work together.

ownership & next steps

We've all been in meetings where a project is decided upon, and it seems to Pierre that Jacques is responsible for it, to Jacques that it's Paul, and to Paul that it's Pierre.

Moreover, all three of them think the project isn't that urgent anyway.

And three weeks later, the project is dead and buried.

Confusion is a violent poison and here's its antidote:

appoint a conductor.I don't need to take on this role (though it doesn't bother me), but i won't agree to work without a clearly identified conductor.
set clear next steps. I make it a point of honour never to close an exchange without setting objectives and their deadlines.

Regarding deadlines: either i'm able to meet them, or i'm not. In the latter case, you'll always be notified before the deadline that i wish to push back. You'll never be caught off guard.

written culture

In the long term, written (asynchronous) communication is almost always superior to oral (synchronous) communication:

We align team members more easily
We can trace exchanges
Writing = laying out one's ideas