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Low efficiency in all tasks
- Bad time management skills
- Too many meetings
- Too many unrelated side talks in meetings
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Working material badly prepared
- Requirements are not adequately recorded
- Requirements are not recorded by the appropriate person
- New features are insufficiently tested
- Important applications are full of defects
- All downstream applications are negatively impacted
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Working structure is very chaotic
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Most of the people are consultants
- Lack of loyalty
- Lack of knowledgement of the company and business
- Long learning curve
- Consultants leave with knowledgement soon
- Repetition of training to new consultants
- Hard to know on what people around work
- No investment / training in consultants
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Too much work outsourced to different companies
- Responsibilities are unclear and confusing
- Difficult to know where to find information
- difficult to find support
- Administrative procedure too long to have even the simplest things done
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Bad resource management
- People keep leaving, and fast
- High turnover
- Lack of key resources for key tasks
- Too many projects depend on the same resource
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Bad project management
- Project manager not adequately competent
- Project manager unable to help team member resolve problems
- Lack of understanding of importance, consequence and priority for PM
- Unable to attribute tasks equitably
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All team members work on multipe projects simutaneously
- Lack of concentration
- Low clarity of workload of each member
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Difficulty to communicate in a timely manner
- Team members don't sit in the same area
- Difficult to find team members available
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Working method not smart
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Too much manual and repetitive work
- Bad working efficiency
- Make the job tedious
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Low clarity of work approach
- People work without sufficient guidance
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People execute tasks without undestanding
- Outcome unsatisfying
- Waste of time on unnecessary tasks
- People work with contradictory ideas
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Lack of unanimous agreement on work approach
- No apparent leadership
- No guidance to new staff on work approach
- Always correct mistakes after time has been spent
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People are not easy to get along with
- Nobody cares about others
- Everybody criticizes others to make himself look good
- Different behavior standards for different people
- A lot of hishonest people
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Working culture is not healthy
- Consultants are hired to be blamed
- Seniority is more important than competence
- Spending time with important people is more important than doing a good job
- Power comes with personal relationship with high management
- Consultants are disposable tools
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Working environment is disagreeable
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Too much noise in the office area
- Frequent personal discussions everywhere
- Loud people by nature
- People talk on the phone hands free
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Bad office layout
- Small cubicles in the corridor
- Lack of privacy
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Administration very frustrating
- People are monitored closely for chores
- Unofficial delegation of responsibilities
- Time and cost tracking done according to budget, not based on real time spent
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Performance review is never done
- No official channel to communicate
- Rumors circulate easily and prevail