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New SOPs are forced stimulation...a shared hallucination of sorts. I get the impression they resonate with the ADHD crowd, who need novel ways to motivate thems
by jstarfish 3y ago
New SOPs are forced stimulation...a shared hallucination of sorts. I get the impression they resonate with the ADHD crowd, who need novel ways to motivate themselves to do the same boring shit every 5-10 years.
(Or, project managers who need a way to define work output in the face of engineers that have learned how to game the old system.)
- smcin 3y agoYour second point is good: > "project managers who need a way to define work output in the face of engineers that have learned how to game the old system" I think there's an enormous difference between a) an individual task tracker maintained by you, only for you, of tasks you'll work on... ...vs b) an agile task board or whatever for a (corporate) group, where there is often ongoing lack of clarity about task definition, prerequisites, acceptance criteria, as you say people may be trying to game it to make their individual productivity metrics look better (or at least to defend their apparent productivity from being damaged by the aforementioned group pitfalls). Really these can be two quite different animals. With a), you should have pretty good clarity about what the implied 'Next Action' is for each task, whereas with b), it may require group discussion, prioritizing, meetings, etc., sometimes even hiring or outsourcing.