Hi all
Currently a permie, and yes I know this isn't Permie UK, but the problem may be of interest to others, and I'm sure the panel will have some interesting ideas on how to tackle it regardless.
I'm a dev team lead - one of several dev team leads working on the same large project. We've got a relatively new business analyst joined us, and I had my first meeting with him today. I need to work with him to get some information from the business.
He suggested this meeting as a way of finding out what support I need from him in getting the information I need - great, that the BA's job - to get the information from the business, and provide it to me.
I explained how I was structuring the spreadsheet that we would use to capture this information, and what my next steps would be in its construction (basically building a matrix to match up what we think the requirements are to a slightly different set that they recently provided).
Through the conversation, he started saying stuff like "could you please add another tab for blah blah blah", and then at the end of the conversation he said something like "if you could just carry on with building that matrix, that would be great". Talking like he's my boss or something, and talking as if the work I'd already said I was doing was some task he'd given to me.
Then later on I hear him say to the project manager "I've given cybersquatter the task of building this matrix". Errrr what? No mate, you're supporting me in getting the information from the business, not directing me and giving me tasks, and in any case, the matrix is something I'm building of my own volition to make both of our lives easier.
I feel like I need to nip this behaviour in the bud, or he's going to try and push me around again. I'm thinking of saying something next time like "Look mate, I just need your support in getting the information we need from the business, I don't need tasks or direction from you."
Or am I just being a permie prima donna?
Currently a permie, and yes I know this isn't Permie UK, but the problem may be of interest to others, and I'm sure the panel will have some interesting ideas on how to tackle it regardless.
I'm a dev team lead - one of several dev team leads working on the same large project. We've got a relatively new business analyst joined us, and I had my first meeting with him today. I need to work with him to get some information from the business.
He suggested this meeting as a way of finding out what support I need from him in getting the information I need - great, that the BA's job - to get the information from the business, and provide it to me.
I explained how I was structuring the spreadsheet that we would use to capture this information, and what my next steps would be in its construction (basically building a matrix to match up what we think the requirements are to a slightly different set that they recently provided).
Through the conversation, he started saying stuff like "could you please add another tab for blah blah blah", and then at the end of the conversation he said something like "if you could just carry on with building that matrix, that would be great". Talking like he's my boss or something, and talking as if the work I'd already said I was doing was some task he'd given to me.
Then later on I hear him say to the project manager "I've given cybersquatter the task of building this matrix". Errrr what? No mate, you're supporting me in getting the information from the business, not directing me and giving me tasks, and in any case, the matrix is something I'm building of my own volition to make both of our lives easier.
I feel like I need to nip this behaviour in the bud, or he's going to try and push me around again. I'm thinking of saying something next time like "Look mate, I just need your support in getting the information we need from the business, I don't need tasks or direction from you."
Or am I just being a permie prima donna?
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