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by seanhandley 1209 days ago
Managers are accountable for seeing this is done, but the whole team should be co-responsible for setting goals.

I worked as a software engineer for 12 years before becoming a manager and I can promise you that a team works better when everyone has input on what goals the team commits to and how the team plans to achieve those goals.

You never never never NEVER want to work on a team where your manager decides all of that and then just throws tickets at you. Screw that sideways.

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I did understand the comment differently. More that at some level OKRs are not important and the decision that a product/module is needed is everything a good working development team needs to do it’s job.

That has nothing to do about the creation of tickets imo. Ofc the team will find a way to organise ITS OWN WORK.

Exactly. Thanks for this.