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One thing to note - there's value in people who can be "bridges." It might make some specialists angry, but there's value in people who can take a meaning in o
by joelrunyon 15y ago
One thing to note - there's value in people who can be "bridges."
It might make some specialists angry, but there's value in people who can take a meaning in one realm of people and translate it to something meaningful in another.
Designers and engineers tend to speak different languages, so being a person who can communicate the differences and take what a code wrangler means and turn it into a design (and vice versa) is valuable.
I think what you want to stay away from is being the "I know everything about everything" guy - that sets you up for failure.
- travissisti 15y agoActing as a liaison between teams -- and even between members of the same team -- is something I find myself doing often. Unfortunately, as @idan pointed out, these kinds of things often go unnoticed by management; and even if they are noticed, they're hard to quantify.