015: On-Call Schedules

In this episode, our on-call panelists, KWu and Josh, chat with our on-call guest, Alyson van Hardenberg, about managing being on-call as a parent: conversations to have with your team, onboarding processes and escalation policies, and tips and tricks for living your best life on-call.

An episode of the Parent Driven Development podcast, hosted by Parent Driven Development, titled "015: On-Call Schedules" was published on November 14, 2018 and runs 44 minutes.

November 14, 2018 ·44m · Parent Driven Development

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Summary

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.

Episode Description

Parent Driven Development Episode 015: On-Call Schedules 00:20 Welcome, Alyson van Hardenberg (https://twitter.com/akvanh)! Alyson is a Software Engineer at Honeycomb (http://Honeycomb.io) 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 (https://www.pagerduty.com/) ### 37:07 Genius / Fail Moments KWu: Taking time off from work, but still having the nanny come. (#Genius) Josh: Introduced the Twilight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Saga_(film_series)) movies to his daughter. (#Fail) Alyson: Taking a Ziplock bag of snacks on long trips. (#Genius) Follow & Support Please follow us @parentdrivendev (https://twitter.com/parentdrivendev) on Twitter or email us at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]). Our website is at ParentDrivenDevelopment.com (https://parentdrivendevelopment.com). We are listener supported. Please consider Supporting us via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/parentdrivendev) and gaining access to our our kind Slack Community. Panel Katherine Wu (https://twitter.com/kwugirl) Josh Puetz (https://twitter.com/joshpuetz) Special Guest: Alyson van Hardenberg.