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> You cannot live in a vacuum: you have to talk to users and stakeholders and your teammates and your manager. But that should be done on your schedule, not on

> You cannot live in a vacuum: you have to talk to users and stakeholders and your teammates and your manager. But that should be done on your schedule, not on theirs I don't disagree with your post or this part... but this part, you may need to get a reality check on. You are not the only and most important contributor. Your users and stakeholders have a lot going on too. If you are finding that your throughput is diminished by distractions, that should be quantified and accounted for in your Sprint (or whatever estimation method you are using). This is hard to actually accomplish IRL, I get it. But just demanding that everyone else adjust to you is not productive.

sublinear 3y ago
> You are not the only and most important contributor. Hardest disagree possible. I don't know where you work or what your role is but many teams have the people in technical roles practically writing the emails back to the clients. There's a huge swamp of talking heads to be drained after the layoffs and other "organizational change" that's occurred over the last few years. Ideas will always be, and necessarily by definition, less valuable than implementation details. Any attempt at refuting that is insanely delusional. The chickens have come home to roost at so many workplaces. Who gets to have their meetings at the end of the day instead of first thing in the morning? The execs? Sad.
- GuB-42 3y ago
  I think that "first thing in the morning" meetings are the best (after "no meeting") when it comes to interruptions, because it means that you won't be interrupted later during your day. In fact the point of these meetings is usually to know what you will spend the rest of the day doing, so that managers won't have to bother you with that during the day. Also, as a night owl, the start of the day is mostly dedicated to finishing waking up and waiting for caffeine to take effect, so I wouldn't be very productive anyways.
  - sublinear 3y ago
    > it means that you won't be interrupted later during your day I've never worked in a place like that. What usually happens is that you're getting asked "quick follow up questions" throughout the day as your statements bubble up the rest of the hierarchy throughout the day. Inevitably someone wants to call you and steals 15 minutes and all your flow.
    - GuB-42 3y ago
      I must be in an unusual company then. I rarely hear about my managers if I have done a meeting in the morning. I get my share of interruptions later, but these are usually technical questions from other developers or testers, or emergencies, but almost never regular project management stuff.

sublinear 3y ago

> You are not the only and most important contributor. Hardest disagree possible. I don't know where you work or what your role is but many teams have the people in technical roles practically writing the emails back to the clients. There's a huge swamp of talking heads to be drained after the layoffs and other "organizational change" that's occurred over the last few years. Ideas will always be, and necessarily by definition, less valuable than implementation details. Any attempt at refuting that is insanely delusional. The chickens have come home to roost at so many workplaces. Who gets to have their meetings at the end of the day instead of first thing in the morning? The execs? Sad.

GuB-42 3y ago
I think that "first thing in the morning" meetings are the best (after "no meeting") when it comes to interruptions, because it means that you won't be interrupted later during your day. In fact the point of these meetings is usually to know what you will spend the rest of the day doing, so that managers won't have to bother you with that during the day. Also, as a night owl, the start of the day is mostly dedicated to finishing waking up and waiting for caffeine to take effect, so I wouldn't be very productive anyways.
- sublinear 3y ago
  > it means that you won't be interrupted later during your day I've never worked in a place like that. What usually happens is that you're getting asked "quick follow up questions" throughout the day as your statements bubble up the rest of the hierarchy throughout the day. Inevitably someone wants to call you and steals 15 minutes and all your flow.
  - GuB-42 3y ago
    I must be in an unusual company then. I rarely hear about my managers if I have done a meeting in the morning. I get my share of interruptions later, but these are usually technical questions from other developers or testers, or emergencies, but almost never regular project management stuff.