This is something that we should be doing all the time regardless if we're in the layoffs era. Just solving problems, being 'scrappy', and prioritizing your work can lead to faster promotion, and faster growth.
Great post, Ryan. I’m curious about your thoughts on how to balance running toward the fire with your normal sprint work if “a lot of things are on fire” and your sprint work is already a stretch to meet.
I’ve ran into that a good amount since my work is naturally not too well defined (doing a lot of legacy migration stuff that runs into new things every day) but also fires going on at the eng org level
Thank you Jordan! We should grab work with the most impact at any given time. This means I often let high priority work (e.g. severe production incidents, unexpected opportunities) preempt some of my existing sprint work
This has worked well for me since my company rewards impact. It's okay if I pause/drop less impactful work so long as I am having strong results
This is something that we should be doing all the time regardless if we're in the layoffs era. Just solving problems, being 'scrappy', and prioritizing your work can lead to faster promotion, and faster growth.
Agreed! Even though these are more effective now than before, they'd help in the past too
Thanks for reading Ivan
Great post, Ryan. I’m curious about your thoughts on how to balance running toward the fire with your normal sprint work if “a lot of things are on fire” and your sprint work is already a stretch to meet.
I’ve ran into that a good amount since my work is naturally not too well defined (doing a lot of legacy migration stuff that runs into new things every day) but also fires going on at the eng org level
Thank you Jordan! We should grab work with the most impact at any given time. This means I often let high priority work (e.g. severe production incidents, unexpected opportunities) preempt some of my existing sprint work
This has worked well for me since my company rewards impact. It's okay if I pause/drop less impactful work so long as I am having strong results
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks Ryan!