015: On-Call Schedules

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 panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com. 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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Turns out children arrive with no manual. There's no coherent online tutorial. Between staying up to date with emerging technologies and balancing work and home life in an industry that often requires un-timeable bug fixes, on call schedules, and more, working parents are balancing a lot. Parents are also exploring additional technical issues like "screen time" or internet privacy, coming at these issues from a different perspective as technologists ourselves. We cover all of these topics and more using a panel of parents coming from diverse perspectives and a variety of technological backgrounds. We'll shine light onto these issues and provide a valuable food for thought for these folks. Want to ask a question that the panelists can discuss in an episode? Email us at panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com. And if you're loving the podcast and want to support us, please visit our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/parentdrivendev)!