Surgeon vs Jack of all trades (was Re: [Sigia-l] My Toolbox is full...now what?

[Andrew Boyd]

Listera wrote:

>At this point in my life, for instance, I know exactly how long a
>process/task will take to the day and I don't miss a deadline. 
>

Hi Ziya,

And you are strong enough that you never get caught up in feature/scope 
creep? Additional hitherto-unplanned design reviews at the request of 
client management or within your own company? Task stacking/additional 
work being piled upon you?  :)

I suppose a good analogy would be a surgeon, operating on a particular 
area of the body with no distractions, vs. the jack of all trades here 
to fix the flyscreen on the front door who is then asked to stop the 
bathroom tap dripping and paint the rear deck. From the sound of it, you 
see your self as the surgeon-analogue, whereas (I'm guessing here) there 
are a lot of us that get deadline/task boundaries blurred by additional 
requests.

This is not a criticism of how you work, more an observation of what 
happens.

FWIW, the team I work with are pretty good at estimating task completion 
time, and fitting into the lifecycle management process of the people 
that we work with. Deadlines get rubbery sometimes, but not through us 
misunderstanding the initial project spec/scope.

Cheers, Andrew

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