Managing output alone is hard, how do you do it without setting unrealistic goals? Do you have a place where I can read more about this?

Usually everyone in the team knows what's required, and we have the tools, and the reports to measure things but usually things might take less or more than expected and the question here is really the actual software challenges that delayed the work or the actual time and effort spent on a problem?

I find it hard to manage output alone, it's a combination of both.

Do you count hours where you work?

How do you manage output?

To me output is challenging, because any engineering task can take less or more time that what's estimated and thus how to set a realistic goals for the team members without making them go crazy.

a. on a specific day, the expectation is to finish task A, but then, the engineer discovered that it depends on unplanned task B and now we need to finish B before being able to complete A and deploy it.

b. an engineer is working on a specific task, and he's investing a lot of time and effort but it was not finished on time because the actual plan didn't work out and needed additional time.

That's why it's kind of hard to manage output alone.

your example at the beginning was excellent, can you give me more details to how you like to be managed in terms of output? if you have a place where I can read from would be awesome.

Thanks again.

We work with another office which has 5 hours difference (behind us), so we prefer to start at 11 AM and leave at 8 PM.

I like to manage team's output rather than managing their time, because if they are forced to spend time inside the office, it doesn't mean they are productive or even working. At the same time it's hard to manage output, because software engineering tasks are hard to estimate and things can go out of the track easily.

I would like to hear about the culture aspects you built inside your companies to increase productivity and how do you manage your team's time? (how do you like to be managed?)

I been noticing few things in the office, and would like to see how would you react to them: a. 2 team members play mobile game 4-5 times a day (5-10 mins each game). b. Some comes at 11:30 AM and leaves at 7:30 PM c. Some comes at 12:30 AM and leaves at 8:00 PM e. Some leaves early last day of the week without compensating the difference.

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