How to do impactful work when team scope has been pre-identified

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Hi I am working on a team where it's been announced that for a big chunk of the next year we'll be doing tech advancements ( i.e. moving over tooling from one suite to another etc )

I like my team but am just concerned of career stagnation

Is there a way to navigate through these waters that would allow me to work on an impactful item beyond what has been determined to work on?

anamazonsde · Accepted Answer

Yes, don't limit your self to planned work! For every SW team, there is a constant effort in operational work, tech dept, and unplanned migrations.

Book a constant percent of your time, look around, there will be a lot of areas for optimizations, new ideas, and great POCs, just keep mining for impactful changes, look for cost optimizations, operational enhancements, or new unfunded ideas that you think will have great impact.

Don't spend too much time on that though, if it succeeds, you will be having all the credit, but if it goes bad, you will be asked for that time.

How to do impactful work when team scope has been pre-identified

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