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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:

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   I am working on a devops team building the shared services that our engineers depend on: log aggregation, CICD, Monitoring, K8s clusters, etc. The team is myself, my boss (lead devops engineer), and a handful of pretty junior people.\\nI feel pulled in a bunch of directions. I\\u2019ve asked for written documentation from my boss to help establish expectations and processes. Think branching strategies, who owns what, what should be prioritized. I want to make it easier to train up the junior people on the team and enable us to push back when devs ask for stuff with no context of what it will take to finish.\\nNothing has been written. It\\u2019s starting to get to me because without that it\\u2019s very difficult for me to push back on requests from the developers on our various teams.\\nHow do I tell my boss that I feel like he\\u2019s letting me down and that I\\u2019m drowning because it seems he just can\\u2019t be bothered to write down some base information?

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   I have been working with my manager for almost a year to be promoted. I have been making a lot of progress on my tasks and as a developer. My manager agreed that I would be promoted in the next month or so if I kept it up. Then he quit to go to a new company. I now have a new manager and I feel like I have to start from scratch. Not much has been translated over from the old manager to the new manager about my progress. The new manager is now telling me there is no way they would hire me as a mid-level dev. I feel like I wasted a lot of time with the old manager and that the new manager is not seeing my value to the company and all the work that I\\u2019ve done to this point. I\\u2019m not going to quit or anything but I just wanted to rant. thanks for listening.

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Show Notes

Writing strategy and vision documents: https://lethain.com/strategies-visions/