This is a good exercise to do with your team. Get them all into a room, or on a call and ask them one question – don’t even ask it, just write it on the board – “I want to be on a Team that…” Your job is not to interject or say anything, your job is simply to write it all down, in as much detail and clarity as possible. “I want to be…
Doesn’t matter who owns the ticket or how it gets done. What matters is that the team gets it done. That’s it, that’s all. Ship the Team.
I had a long drive home yesterday, so I thought I’d listen to a podcast. Found a new one I had downloaded but never listened to an episode of. Then I listened to 7 minutes of ads. Then I stopped listening. The desire to hook a new listener as been replaced with the desire to get a pegcount on their ads.
Does time to complete actually matter anymore? What about the quality of the work? What about the efficiency with which you completed the work? What about how much of it you were able to do independently? What about the value you created in your work? If all you’re measuring is speed, then yes, AI is going to slaughter you. But there is more than metric to measure by.
As much as you try to avoid it. Sometimes you need to investigate a problem line by line. Similar to when you’re trying to find the connecting electrical wire, you need to investigate each one, line by line. There will always be a need to diligently, logically, and carefully identify and walk through a problem. Line by Line doesn’t go away, it just evolves into the next line by line search.