At a previous job, I was asked to write up a list of my accomplishments for the previous year in preparation for my performance evaluation. During the evaluati

At a previous job, I was asked to write up a list of my accomplishments for the previous year in preparation for my performance evaluation. During the evaluation my manager and I went over this list and I commented that it seemed to me that I hadn't accomplished a year's worth of work. He as happy with my work but acknowledged that there were a lot of things I did that wouldn't go on the list and I can't be expected to be producing all of the time. I suppose that's like focus factor in Scrum. I still think it took too long to complete some tasks. They would occasionally bog down while I had to noodle with existing code to be able to add new features. So even if I'm coding, I may not be creating value but rather I'm paying down the company's technical debt.