Comment Blame the Process not the person... (Score 1) 562
It's important not to cast blame on a person - odds are the management knows who the deadwood is (if they don't, it might be time to polish off the resume), but they may not know about kinks in the IT process; whether it's a lack of testing, convoluted approval processes, or simply inaccessible documentation.
I think the best advice is to grab yourself a copy of something like the Pragmatic Programmer, or (if you go in for tradition) the Mythical Man-Month, and look for pathological behaviours in those which match your own company. You can then suggest remedies for the problems, cite some kind of authority, and generally know what you're talking about rather than just carping like some unpatriotic malcontent. It's important to point out, explicitly, that any problems are no-one's fault - they simply arise, unintended, from the processes that have been adopted. It's inevitable because there's no perfect system.
Besides not being seen as a squealer, odds are that you're emphasising problems that are more endemic than simply having a bad manager. Bad managers, if handled delicately, are temporary. Institutional problems have much more inertia, and will aggravate you for much longer.
I think the best advice is to grab yourself a copy of something like the Pragmatic Programmer, or (if you go in for tradition) the Mythical Man-Month, and look for pathological behaviours in those which match your own company. You can then suggest remedies for the problems, cite some kind of authority, and generally know what you're talking about rather than just carping like some unpatriotic malcontent. It's important to point out, explicitly, that any problems are no-one's fault - they simply arise, unintended, from the processes that have been adopted. It's inevitable because there's no perfect system.
Besides not being seen as a squealer, odds are that you're emphasising problems that are more endemic than simply having a bad manager. Bad managers, if handled delicately, are temporary. Institutional problems have much more inertia, and will aggravate you for much longer.
