I am a team lead. I am also an individual. I work for my team. But I have my own views. I act for the team in what I deem what’s best for them.
On my quarterly review, I got some feedback that another team would have done the appnexus integration quicker. That was a surprise on both ends. One, that such a feedback would be used, and two, that’s it’s not really true. So I shared this feedback with my team on Friday during a retro. That was one of the ways to show that our team needs to do better.
I am surprised and actually encouraged by our team’s response. First reaction? They were offended by it. Second, we can’t leave this on the table like that. We will not accept damaging feedback like that. So now it’s time to act and make changes so this does not occur.