Re:Thoughts on OKRs
by LowkeyMouths on Thursday May 19, 2022 @05:36AM
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One way I deal with this is having co-workers also create tickets if they need help with something. That way I can still be a team player but there is also documentation about how much I helped which is otherwise hard to quantify.
Re:Thoughts on OKRs
by commandlinefan on Thursday May 19, 2022 @03:03PM
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I've tried that approach, too - for the most part, the blowback is the same as just ignoring them or even telling them to go away. Sadly, success is and always will be 10% ability and 90% how much people like you.
Everywhere I've ever worked - OKRs or DPMs or Goals or whatever you want to call them or not - I've had a set of work that's assigned to me via JIRA tickets or Bugzilla tickets or some kind of ticket tracking system, and I've also had a constant deluge of co-workers asking for my help with something or other. The longer I work there, the greater the deluge of both requests for help and volume of work assigned. Every day I've ever come into work in my life (besides the one-two month "honeymoon period" when I start a new job), I have to decide between ignoring my coworkers pleas for help or slipping the deadlines on the individual tasks assigned to me.
Over the course of the past three decades, I've tried both ways - first, focusing on my assigned tasks and second, dropping everything every time I get a request for help. I've found that, overall, the second way works best. I have to constantly apologize for constantly missing deadlines, but if I keep turning away coworkers, not being enough of a "team player" shows up as a nastier mark in my performance reviews than always being behind on tasks.