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Together this tandem can do truly great things.
Isn't this the jack of all trades?
Personally, I think one can become a master of a few things and a jack of many if one taps into the marvelous power of analogy and free association. It's literally a super power of the human brain that few people utilize. We're not meant to think linearly in most cases. Linear thinking is a necessary evil when solving already prescribed and well understood problem and a prison and barrier in all other cases.
Isn't this the jack of all trades?
Rule-breakers, unpredictable, mess up, you don't know whether you'd want to go into battle with them.
Hopefully, you get a Hollywood ending, in which they turn out to be 10x performers who save the day.
“What is a person with somewhat varied skills??” I scream as I smash my debit card number into my keyboard to buy a domain for this concept that I’ve just invented. I smile slyly at my partner, a meth pipe.
One quibble,
> If your Wildcard is a Product Manager, their team will ship feature-complete products on time, but without the neatly organized armada of JIRA tickets or burn-down charts you wished to see. The friction of keeping things organized is less stimulating than the instant feedback of just doing the work.
“Just doing the work” is the point. The fact that the work can be finished without JIRA tickets and burn down charts is because those things are stupid ways to manage product development, not because Wildcards get shit done.
The problem with JIRA in particular is that it encourages a focus on tasks rather than goals, and so the tasks become the goals.