015: On-Call Schedules - Parent Driven Development

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Parent Driven Development Episode 015: On-Call Schedules 00:20 Welcome, Alyson van Hardenberg! Alyson is a Software Engineer at Honeycomb and the mother of two boys. 02:41 Pager or Baby? Which do you choose? It was a non-issue for Alyson. One of Honeycomb's managers, before even hiring Alyson, said that she'd take Alyson's pager during "off-duty" hours as an added responsibility. They'll check in and reevaluate when her son is one. Equal does not mean fair across teams. 05:07 Having On-Call Schedule Discussions Special Accommodations Scheduling Around On-Call Time On-Call Parenting vs On-Call Job-ing Working Remotely and Boundaries Around Work 11:33 Living Your Life On-Call Doubling Up In Pairs Escalation Policies On-Call Onboarding Processes Handling Outings On-Call 22:46 On-Call Team Expectations Triage vs Fixing 26:04 On-Call Stories & Experiences 31:26 Hours of Coverage 6PM - 9PM = The Worst Parenting Hours 33:46 Results of the 1-Year Check-in and Thoughts on Physical Pagers vs PagerDuty ### 37:07 Genius / Fail Moments KWu: Taking time off from work, but still having the nanny come. (#Genius) Josh: Introduced the Twilight movies to his daughter. (#Fail) Alyson: Taking a Ziplock bag of snacks on long trips. (#Genius) Follow & Support Please follow us @parentdrivendev on Twitter or email us at [email protected]. Our website is at ParentDrivenDevelopment.com. We are listener supported. Please consider Supporting us via Patreon and gaining access to our our kind Slack Community. Panel Katherine Wu Josh PuetzSpecial Guest: Alyson van Hardenberg.

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Parent Driven Development Episode 015: On-Call Schedules 00:20 Welcome, Alyson van Hardenberg! Alyson is a Software Engineer at Honeycomb and the mother of two boys. 02:41 Pager or Baby? Which do you choose? It was a non-issue for Alyson. One...

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