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> Not every subproject is useful for its own sake. Hold your team members accountable for demonstrating the value of tangential work beforehand, and put your fo
by mreiland 12y ago
> Not every subproject is useful for its own sake. Hold your team members accountable for demonstrating the value of tangential work beforehand, and put your foot down if you're not convinced. Everyone loves a side-project, but it's not a substitute for progress on the core goals.
Disagree with that. Sometimes they're working on improving things you don't want to be improved and they should be.
As long as they're getting the work done, who cares what else they do.
- acjohnson55 12y agoI'm not saying side projects aren't important. I do plenty of them. Maybe too many. But as a team lead, you can't let everybody do their own thing willy nilly all over the place. My interpretation of the original post is that these side projects are impeding scheduled work. That's not acceptable. Either a) this side project work is crucial and team lead is deficient for not recognizing this or b) it's not and the devs aren't being held accountable for the work the stakeholders have prioritized. This discrepancy needs to be resolved.