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Maybe we have different goals, but if you want to grow in your career this is terrible advice. I get it, we can’t do everything, but surely there’s something yo
by whall6 3y ago
Maybe we have different goals, but if you want to grow in your career this is terrible advice. I get it, we can’t do everything, but surely there’s something you can put to the side.
- jakewins 3y agoI’ve found the opposite FWIW - in many orgs you get rewarded for getting stuff built, and a powerful tool for that is to show product and upper management the tradeoffs of their requests, to counter scope creep. “I can move the team off what they are doing to accommodate this request, but we will need to deprioritise <thing you asked for last week> if we want to stay on schedule”
- usrbinbash 3y agoI am not putting anything aside. My employer is. My time is a resource my employer has at his disposal. He pays me and in exchange gets to decide how he wants to allocate my time. My job includes giving realistic estimates on how long things take to accomplish. When asked to do something that I know cannot be done due to resource and time constraints, I's my duty to tell my employer as much, so he can make a strategic decision. And in my experience, employers value that input.