Lately, I’ve been so frustrated – deeply frustrated while working with certain people. They’re introduced to me as very “talented” folks (among them, one is a team lead; the others come here to work – meaning they’re top of their fields in their respective company). In fact, most of them are – well, at least better than I am technically. I was so excited to work with them. But it mostly ends up quite disappointing…

It turns out they all have some very similar problems. Guess what they are? Hint: it’s (un)surprisingly not technical skills:

• Communication (when to give updates, say “wait”)
• Accountability
• Planning
• Time management..

Communication is the most common, which I and many have had that problem too, but not the biggest issue here… It is that they can’t get things done on time. Even worse, they simply can’t even deliver what they promise. Somehow they don’t ever ever take their words seriously. Weird!

– dskin (failed intro – no communication just sorry)
– AAG
– HSS landing page (a team lead who was introduced to only do ‘challenging stuff’ – he’s not interested in easy & trivia ones :O)
– Autospot (‘good track’ freelancer – kinda ‘arrogant’ to communicate, couldn’t get things done. stop the project. irresponsible.)