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The step by step at the time vs the "in hindsight" really is a powerful persuasion tool/learning tool.
e.g. the below is a real situation that happened at work:
- I run a SRE team
- We do a short term embed of an SRE member to do some one off dev work for a migration
- Dev Mgr to my team member: "oh, since you are touching that code, you should probably also work on this tiny business feature that depends on it"
- DM: "Oh, since you worked on that, you should also work on this other feature"
- DM: "Oh, since you worked on the above, just take over the whole feature"
- DM: "Oh, since you did all THAT, can you talk to the business and figure out the next features??"
Again, totally ridiculous overreach but spread out over 6 months in a fast moving, high stress environment, it can go unnoticed.
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The step by step at the time vs the "in hindsight" really is a powerful persuasion tool/learning tool.
e.g. the below is a real situation that happened at work:
- I run a SRE team
- We do a short term embed of an SRE member to do some one off dev work for a migration
- Dev Mgr to my team member: "oh, since you are touching that code, you should probably also work on this tiny business feature that depends on it"
- DM: "Oh, since you worked on that, you should also work on this other feature"
- DM: "Oh, since you worked on the above, just take over the whole feature"
- DM: "Oh, since you did all THAT, can you talk to the business and figure out the next features??"
Again, totally ridiculous overreach but spread out over 6 months in a fast moving, high stress environment, it can go unnoticed.