I’m a month into a new role, under a new manager, that works closely with old teammates. The program my manager and I are building is expanding quickly, faster than we can get process documented, stakeholder relationships established or ingest the needed data. I have been told that i own the program relationship between other teams around data ingestion; cadence, queries, go back motion... Another teammate came to me to say they were meeting wirh a partner team to discuss all the items I own. I said feel free to meet with them, but don’t talk specifics or make agreements about these items, as I’ll be tge one to implement and need to slot it into existing workload. i informed my manager if concerns, he addressed it with his manager, they confirmed it was just intros. Today i received an enail that said, we’re going to ingest this data, accross these repositories on this cadence and to please inform them of teams impacted so they can roll out documentation and training. I’ve worked with this person fir three years and tgis has happened often in the past. I’m tired of it, but I also cant get to the wirk now. Am I a pushover for just letting it go, or would I be perceived as a whiner by asserting my boundaries while also setting expectations that I can’t address the work for another 3 weeks based on current priorities???
It can happen if manager perceives either you are slow or things are not moving as fast it should. Assess your progress as planned and take up with thr manager.
You need to do scope projection and task breakdown, then give estimates and say this is how much time should be allotted to this task, then ask for engineers to be assigned to help or else talk to your skip
Sounds like they want to get shit done without you? Are you the bottleneck?
Maybe... I’m doing the jobs of three people while we hire for new roles. Do I just accept this as help? Perhaps I’m taking this too personally...
Let others step up. If they can’t do your work then it should be a compliment to how valuable you are