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Of course. Same as helping a colleague (unless it’s a few minute task). Whenever there’s something that I can spend my time on, it’s going to be converted into
by p1esk 2y ago
Of course. Same as helping a colleague (unless it’s a few minute task). Whenever there’s something that I can spend my time on, it’s going to be converted into a ticket.
- jachee 2y agoHow do you prevent that from recursing infinitely?
- happymellon 2y agoIf you are measuring tickets, then you can't. Your job is to create tickets to close them. If you generate productivity along side that, then thats a bonus.
- djtango 2y agoBecause we're humans, not robots and a human manager with human managees should be capable of working within a process without abusing the most obvious of edge cases. When building software you have to be precise to the nth degree but with human processes you can afford some degree of ambiguity and judgment...
- exe34 2y agoyou create tickets for helping colleagues? I would understand "add this feature for me", but do you also have a ticket to "take x through this unfamiliar neighborhood of the codebase"?
- ryandrake 2y agoI've seen tech companies that strongly encouraged that: Open a "task" or "process" ticket describing what you're doing, then do it, then close the ticket. Not all tickets are bugs and features. During review time, if you expended effort not described in a ticket, it's as if you never did it. When in doubt, open a ticket.
- exe34 2y agothat makes sense. I hate Jira enough though I don't really like cluttering it.
- Arrowmaster 2y agoI've worked at a tech company that explicitly avoided that. They refused to allow me to even open tickets for things not actively being worked on but were important enough they needed to be looked at in the next six months. The reasoning? Any internal ticket could be picked for review by the SOC2 auditor so all of our tickets must follow all procedures just like client tickets. It was more important to use templates, follow processes, and resolve tickets quickly than to allow us to use the tools to do our job efficiently.