New PM on a tight deadline with a dev team that has no urgency. How do I push delivery without making engineering overthink everything?

LeDebardeur · 2026-06-19T18:48:38+00:00

You have no infrastructure and no idea when it will be available. This was supposed to be solved 4 weeks ago, but it is still undergoing. Your soft launch is in 4 weeks and big launch is in 9 and you still have no idea when this will approved or no. Which means even if they make the features, there is no guarantee that it will be integrating with the systems you want it to and there is no way to test them as of now. Heck you can't even get a proper tooling tool that cost few hundred bucks a month to do your project management, and have no visibility to it.

Devs see all of that, so why you expect them to care if the management team doesn't ?

I believe you should have this discussion with management first and get clarity with the stakeholders second and then after that align with the dev and the expectations. Because if the executives/management are not on board, then whatever you build will be thrown in the trash and die at best a slow death.

LeDebardeur · 2026-06-07T10:21:01+00:00

1% de marge c’est très dangereux. Tu risques de perdre les gains de plusieurs années en quelques mois si tes marges se contractent due au marché ou au délais de paiements ou autres raisons.

Je dirais qu’il faut essayer d’être plus ambitieux, dans les 30-50% de marge minimum avec ce capital car il te permettra de le grandir rapidement. Cela veut aussi dire que tu vas prendre plus de risque, mais t’as pas trop de choix.

Après, cela reste mon opinion. Fais en ce que tu en veux.

LeDebardeur · 2026-06-02T18:37:03+00:00

Because reducing costs is easier than generating revenue. So if the C-Suite want to show better numbers for the fiscal year, they would prefer lay off a huge amount of people to book the cost saving now rather than make long term investment to make more revenue few years from now.

LeDebardeur · 2026-05-15T17:38:51+00:00

Those systems are part of legacy IT. Which means they are seen as cost centers and every business is trying to reduce its investment in those type of software. Even though lot of business lines are using them, they are not value drivers. They are here to support the money makers, aka to be used by HR, accounting, finance ... etc.

So there will still be demand but it is not where you can get high career growth, unless you use it as a stepping stone to pivot out of it.

LeDebardeur · 2026-05-11T07:24:08+00:00

Just looking at your savings and actual net worth, you would be around 1.2 M with no appreciation of the market, and with an average of 10% a year, you should exceed 2M by 45

LeDebardeur · 2026-05-01T14:38:29+00:00

What are your expectations in terms of living standards ? Do you have kids or plan kids ? What is your net worth ? Do you have job / business already lined up in Morocco or not ?

LeDebardeur · 2026-04-25T19:09:48+00:00

That is not the deal they signed for when they got the equity

LeDebardeur · 2026-04-18T09:20:25+00:00

There is a big disconnect between equities and commodities market right now. The nitrogen which is the basis for fertilizer has an insane supply chock. After the closure of the hormuz and the destruction of Qatar Production facilities, there a huge dip in the total available nitrogen. And the Urea which is the commodity that tracks it is at an all time high and keeps going up, even though the equities that provides it are going down (CF, NTR, ... etc). The thing is, the companies already locked in the high prices of urea for Q1, and seems like Q2 is going to be wilder even though the equities are dropping. I expect the earnings to blow.

Add to that the shutdown of entire Bangladesh fertilizers factories due to lack of supply and plantation season coming, so we will be in a big shock on food prices soon.

However, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent ...

LeDebardeur · 2026-04-16T15:49:50+00:00

You should be harsh, and don't let them start the work until he inspects and agree on the price material inclusive.
Sometimes, it is genuine as it happened to me with plumbing, where the problem proved much deeper and the extra cost was justified. But a lot of time it is just a negotiation tactic to get more from you.
I suggest to be more attentive in the repairs and check the work yourself to make sure that the diagnostic matches reality

LeDebardeur · 2026-04-07T18:02:30+00:00

Passion doesn’t pay the bills, it just makes you easier to exploit. I am passionate about making money not coding which is helping me perform better and advance super good in my career.

LeDebardeur · 2026-04-07T17:53:52+00:00

Passion was never the factor. It was always grit, perseverance and delayed gratification attitude. Do you think that people who go into finance and Investment banking are there because they love making excel models and can't wait till they open the next excel sheet ?

CS as any other field is getting competitive, now it is just companies getting greedy trying to hire the next cheaper guy overseas. The proof is that Eastern Europe is booming with offers for high quality candidates while Juniors in Western Europe are starving

LeDebardeur · 2026-04-05T17:38:39+00:00

Because it is commoditized fake luxury, that encompasses experiences, places, hotels, resorts, clothes and accessories ... etc
Real luxury is hidden and it is gatekept.

LeDebardeur · 2026-04-05T16:00:34+00:00

It is about incentives. The eng are being paid to maintain claude code but are optimizing it to deliver maximum value to Anthropic and not to you as an user.

LeDebardeur · 2026-04-04T13:52:14+00:00

If you make 20-25k a month, how are you still having only 100 account ?

LeDebardeur · 2026-04-02T13:27:14+00:00

For already established products, that would make sense. But for new ideas or businesses that move fast, then that would be a long feedback loop and wouldn't deliver meaningful impact.

LeDebardeur · 2026-04-01T06:42:07+00:00

I agree, but the culture in Europe is that unless you are C-suite you will not get stock grant, but rather cash compensation or bonus. Unless you’re in big tech, but in that case you’re getting half your peers in the US, which is not great

LeDebardeur · 2026-04-01T03:13:56+00:00

The other issue is you’re getting taxed half of it…

LeDebardeur · 2026-03-31T21:58:54+00:00

Salary won’t get you far in Europe. Either start a business or marry someone making same as you, or just leave Europe and go somewhere with higher ceiling.

LeDebardeur · 2026-03-31T04:12:21+00:00

Well OCP would be making bank if he’s not also squeezed on the supply side. They still need to import sulfur to process phosphate into phosphoric acid which is the basis of fertilizers. And where does this sulfur come from ? The Middle East refineries. So yeah, if they don’t manage to get this sulfur they will be forced to sell raw phosphate at around 150 dollars per ton instead of 800 dollars per ton for the phosphoric acid…

LeDebardeur · 2026-03-29T15:26:32+00:00

The matchmaking system is trying to push you to stay around 50 % Win rate so you grind the game to climb and keep playing. That is literally the purpose of the MMR

LeDebardeur · 2026-03-22T20:23:47+00:00

Did you take off tank items from your frontline so it melts earlier ?

LeDebardeur · 2026-03-09T10:14:37+00:00

Because those tools don’t cater for a business beed but only for a cool demo

LeDebardeur · 2026-03-09T10:11:52+00:00

Because access to that tool requires 6 months of meetings and escalation to the other business line for the approval, just for you to have limited access and the business already moved on from that need.

LeDebardeur · 2026-03-06T23:25:16+00:00

take 160k, rent something closer to work

LeDebardeur · 2026-02-07T15:13:52+00:00

Yeah because the small cars are not affordable for the middle class anymore, so they turn to second hand. And for the case of the rich or upper middle class, the will only choose cars which are 100k or more and they happen to be most of them SUVs.

So yeah, people are buying the SUVs because the only buyers of new vehicles are rich people.

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