I think good velocity for feature delivery is detrimental for me
👆 I feel I’ve a good feature velocity. I’m being honest in providing the timelines and I complete it on time, some team members provide 2-3 sprints as timelines of the thing that could be finished in a week. So the PMs and my manager assign me to work on critical products. But this doesn’t reflect in promos or better rewards. On the flip side, in the current market condition, I’m one of the top performers in the org, so I’m convincing myself that I may be relatively safe(although layoffs doesn’t work like that). I had an awful M1 last year who had favorites, and have an awful M2 who has favorites. I think my new M1 is much better. For me increasingly it looks like a lost cause for promos. Some of My team members are closer to my M2, same race and all that, M2 says I’m technically very good, but this is useless for me unless it gets converted to a promo. How do I leverage my technical knowledge to get a promo? TC: 🥜
Velocity is only of the factors you can use initially to impress. Try it only for a quarter to impress your boss along with other things. If the convo doesn't turn into you getting a meaty impactful project that checks your boxes, then you are better dial back the velocity else they will just juice you out. Lot of times, almost always there's bias and favorites, technically strongest isn't gonna help much, that's when you jump ship.
Na, I’m actually working on the most impactful projects and my manager has me taking the lead on this.
Getting a promo isn’t about technical knowledge. Just working on some features well isn’t going to get you a promo either. Just because you can do a thing better doesn’t mean you’re demonstrating you can do the wider scope better.
Care to explain further?