Want interesting work? Don’t expect to get it assigned to you, you have to find those ideas. Then you have to convince others it’s a valuable investment. In sho

Want interesting work? Don’t expect to get it assigned to you, you have to find those ideas. Then you have to convince others it’s a valuable investment. In short you need a little bit of sales skills to put yourself in a position to propose and “win” the cool work. The best way to do this is with “show don’t tell”: make quick and dirty demos of what you’d propose. A demo with kinda working code is far easier to make decisions about than some giant proposal of an idea. And don’t just sit on it until you see your boss: get feedback from colleagues about your idea before anyone else. Either the enthusiasm will snowball, and you’ll have allies when going to management on why doing this work is essential. Or it’ll sputter out, and that’s a valid signal too! Also: > the team is so large that it's often easy for him to lose track of an individual developer. This jumped out as a bit of a red flag. Sounds like you’re doing your best but can’t get anyone’s attention. That’s frustrating. In many work environments this isn’t the norm.