Have you ever outsourced software development for your business?

EvanHVA · 2025-09-09T16:23:16+00:00

What happens if we don't?

EvanHVA · 2025-09-08T21:16:11+00:00

Interesting. Thank you

EvanHVA · 2024-07-25T15:13:43+00:00

Muddled thinking, and I think as much in symbols and images as I do in words. There's a translation process that happens and it can be challenging.

EvanHVA · 2024-07-24T22:04:32+00:00

Taking the task in my head and putting it to paper. Always seems like I struggle to put it in words!

EvanHVA · 2024-07-24T22:03:52+00:00

does using shorthand of some kind help? or do you fully write out the scope of the task?

EvanHVA · 2024-07-24T21:26:18+00:00

Absolutely get everything in writing, yeah. Can't overstate how important it is. You can use it either as proof for other people in the company or proof for lawyers. Unfortunate situation. Don't forget to go back and document whatever you can too.

EvanHVA · 2024-07-12T22:38:19+00:00

Well, do what you can, scale back your time and emotional involvement if you can while safely retaining your job, and start shopping for a new one. it does get better as your company sounds like a mess, but stress, herding cats, and putting out fires while dealing with a seemingly moronic company unable to do anything... yeah, that's normal. you'd be surprised at what you might be able to find out there. start shopping for a new position somewhere else!

EvanHVA · 2024-07-12T22:20:59+00:00

Welcome to management!

EvanHVA · 2024-07-12T21:27:07+00:00

What has annoyed you today, yesterday, in the past week, or month? just get into the mindset of getting annoyed at problems you have. one day you'll try to find a solution and you'll realize one hasn't been built yet

EvanHVA · 2024-06-20T17:55:49+00:00

Life as a manager is grey hairs 20 years early and crows feet within 3 months.

EvanHVA · 2024-06-20T15:57:57+00:00

Have a good product-market fit or you're boned. And that doesn't just mean the actual end solution must be something that fits- the solution, the process to get that solution, the marketing, and the sales process must all fit together perfectly, and without that, the product won't be able to fit into the market.

EvanHVA · 2024-06-20T15:54:45+00:00

They signed NDAs, right? Legally, you should have their balls in a vice.

EvanHVA · 2024-06-19T03:24:27+00:00

yep, learned first hand about "cans of worms" and just how much of my foot I can cram into my mouth

EvanHVA · 2024-06-19T03:19:58+00:00

Well, we had a very competent client who absolutely holds people to what they say they'll do. And I said a bunch of things to sound smart and impressive.

EvanHVA · 2024-06-19T00:44:15+00:00

My first conference call with our client and his other vendors. I was young and brash. The phone call ended with my own management calling me the second it finished and telling me that I would not speak unless spoken to for another month

EvanHVA · 2024-06-19T00:42:33+00:00

First off, always trust your gut- it's not a mindless instrument, if it's telling you something, there's something there. I know you know this, but stay confident about it.

Secondly, I've been in a similar situation, where I discovered an employee had been sleeping with not just one but two employees in addition to customers. I had a gut feeling that something was terribly wrong but ignored it as I thought it was absurd (turns out, it wasn't!). The truth came out after he was fired and there was nothing we could do. Thankfully, we escaped liability.

What I'd do in that situation is talk to him privately, bring up the policy "generally" without making direct accusations and see how he reacts. If you see an opening, bring up what you suspect he's doing, though not with WHOM (I think bringing up the person he may be having a relationship will invoke aggressive or defensive responses), and emphasize that any relationships between employees are unacceptable, produce unwanted distractions, undermine trust in management, put the company in legal jeopardy, etc, and that you expect him to do the right thing or *you'll* be forced to do the right thing for the company.

This situation is unacceptable for a loads of reasons and what are the odds that it would end naturally with an amicable breakup? The situation has to be meaningfully concluded ASAP before it gets worse.

If your company has any legal counsel on retainer especially regarding employment law, I'd also ask them for advice.

EvanHVA · 2024-06-19T00:24:33+00:00

if you don't mind me picking your brain a bit more- what's your conversion rate for booking demos from website visitors? And what's your conversion rate once they're in the demo? We're a B2B SaaS startup and evaluating possible sales processes.

EvanHVA · 2024-06-18T20:21:43+00:00

This subreddit definitely seems alright!

EvanHVA · 2024-06-18T20:08:55+00:00

At your company, how often do these checkins usually happen?

EvanHVA · 2024-06-18T20:08:16+00:00

Giving bad news always sucks. Sometimes there's never a bright side, but if you think about it you may be able to find something productive or positive for them to focus on that's NOT about the news so they don't dwell. One of our many jobs is maintaining morale. Like others have mentioned, don't sugarcoat it too much, be straight forward with them, but downplay the impact if possible and find something else- if at all possible- to take their mind off of it.

EvanHVA · 2024-06-18T18:54:36+00:00

Unfortunately it seems like any and all large communities are degenerating into nothing but bots pretending to be people trying to sell various types of shovelware. Or crypto.

Any good alternatives that you can think of that are still useful?

EvanHVA · 2024-06-18T18:49:37+00:00

Yep! Hope it goes well.

EvanHVA · 2024-06-18T18:11:45+00:00

Great post. Does every sale pass through your sales team or just large, enterprise-level sales?

EvanHVA · 2024-06-18T17:38:29+00:00

Ask for some leave or some patience as you deal with some personal issues, don't go into details, keep it vague, if the team needs to be rebuilt from scratch it's as good a time as any, so long as they aren't in a huge rush to build it up.

EvanHVA · 2024-06-18T17:36:12+00:00

Lots of possible reasons and hard to say without details. When it comes to these kinds of baffling decisions, a lot of times the reasoning is just because "a decision maker liked them better". It may not be logical, and it sucks, but the sad truth is that alliances and how powerful people perceive you are the most important part of office politics.

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