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Wrong. Business is about relationships. Be competent and do what is minimally required. Do extra networking or befriending your manager/boss/etc. People who get ahead build relationships. The slaves stick around to do the extra work. Competence + relationship > competence + extra work It's so funny how all the business advice is about how to be a good slave rather than what really gets you ahead.
how will these two wacky characters play off each other I wonder!
on edit: added in wacky characters.
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Do extra work, and do present it, but pretend it only took 30 minutes when it actually took five hours. Congrats, now you get credit for the extra work and you're a "10x rockstar".
Yes, and the next time a 50-hour task comes up, they'll expect you to do it by tomorrow. The problem with faking your way into being a 10x rockstar is that expectations grow faster than compensation. The other problem is that if you can't sustain the pace, you're going to burn out and your life will be utter crap.
> It's never something we need to hide, but instead it's something we're eager to share with our teams - ala "hey, I did some research on X, and maybe this is something that could be valuable for us to try". I'll give good odds that in most shops, if you pull this line more than a couple of times, your management chain is going to decide you aren't picking up enough work in sprint planning...
> your management chain is going to decide you aren't picking up enough work in sprint planning A trivial workaround: "hey team, a month ago I did some research on X, and maybe this is something that could be valuable for us to try". It's mathematically the same, but shhh. You don't need to lie. It's actually better to reflect for some days on any new research.
Wrong. Business is about relationships. Be competent and do what is minimally required. Do extra networking or befriending your manager/boss/etc. People who get ahead build relationships. The slaves stick around to do the extra work. Competence + relationship > competence + extra work It's so funny how all the business advice is about how to be a good slave rather than what really gets you ahead.
I do the thing until it is good enough (which sometimes is less done than initially requested) and then move on to another thing from the pile if I have time. Or I will answer support questions, or review pending pull requests.
"Extra" sounds a bit like "gold plating".
Always doing Extra (and not being appreciated for it) is a great recipe for Burnout.
More often than not no one (bug some rare customer probably) gives a damn about you going extra mile. Often it is actually punished, not directly but I've had plenty of examples when people instead of doing extra ventured into doing some fun shit for other teams and uh-oh, cross-team impact, here's your promotion while your actual team is struggling to get right the boring but actually money bringing stuff.
So no, money first please.
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> your management chain is going to decide you aren't picking up enough work in sprint planning A trivial workaround: "hey team, a month ago I did some research on X, and maybe this is something that could be valuable for us to try". It's mathematically the same, but shhh. You don't need to lie. It's actually better to reflect for some days on any new research.
That will work well .... for a month.
Edit: Now I'm thinking about what kind of tooling I'd want to make the process seamless.