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Was your workload such that you could put in a reasonable number of hours on your 'work' and still have 20% of your time for other projects? Or was 20% time ju
by ensignavenger 10y ago
Was your workload such that you could put in a reasonable number of hours on your 'work' and still have 20% of your time for other projects? Or was 20% time just putting in an extra 20% on top of what other developers (who didn't do 20% projects) would do?
- nostrademons 10y agoOver my career there, yes, I could put a reasonable number of hours on my work and still do 20% projects. There were short periods of time when I was asked to "bank" the time and focus entirely on my main project, eg. I might work straight for 5 weeks on my main project and then take a week straight of 20% time once it launched. This suited me fine - usually the way I took 20% time was to fit it into time periods when I didn't really have much else to do or I was bored with my main project. And splitting it up like this let me focus more intently on both of them, which helped in delivering.
- ensignavenger 10y agoCool, sounds like it worked out for you about the way I would expect. I suppose it may depend some on your team, I have heard some people say it is just 20% extra work.