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- Author: seangoedecke.com
- Full Title: Glue Work Considered Harmful
- Category:#articles
- Document Note: Интересная мысль: делать glue work для проектов, за успех которых ты отвечаешь. Тогда будет оценена на сама glue work, а итоговый успех проекта.
- Document Tags: leaddev LeadDev Outline
- Summary: “Glue work” refers to essential but unrecognized tasks that help teams operate efficiently, like updating documents and onboarding new engineers. Companies often overlook this work during promotions, as they prioritize visible feature delivery instead. While glue work is important, it should be done strategically for projects you lead, rather than as a primary focus.
- URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/glue-work-considered-harmful
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The idea is that there’s a large amount of unglamorous work that every team needs in order to be efficient: updating the docs and roadmap, addressing technical debt, onboarding engineers, making sure people talk to their counterparts on other teams, noticing strands that are getting dropped, and so on. Practical, naive engineers gravitate to this work because it’s obviously useful, but at promo or bonus time they’re ignored in favor of the engineers who did more visible work (like delivering new features). (View Highlight)
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Companies don’t reward glue work because they don’t want you prioritizing it. And they don’t want you prioritizing it because they want you shipping features. Glue work is hard. If you’re capable of doing glue work well, they want you to use that ability to deliver projects instead of improving general efficiency. (View Highlight)
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Should you never do glue work? No, you should do glue work tactically. That is, you should do this kind of extra work for the projects you lead - the projects whose success you’re accountable for - in order to make sure they succeed. You won’t be rewarded for the glue work specifically, but you will be rewarded for the success of the project. For other projects, you should just do your regular job. (View Highlight)
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