Too many roles / too many hats is far too common and why I find it hard to stay anywhere more than 4-5 years.
As a senior IC in a super-flat & growing org..
I'm almost like a customer successs engineer, product manager, scrum master, senior developer and tech lead all rolled into one.
Management administrivia
I accumulate administrative things my manager doesn't want to do & pushes down
I do unofficially own a part of the team
Dotted lines of devs in my "team" that can be rolled in & out sprint by sprint
Customer success / product / architecture
I collect customer requirements, translate them into stories & documentation
I manage customer/manager expectations with status meetings & reports
I project plan out 3 months of work with JIRA hierarchies/Gantt chart
I design solutions given the requirements
Scrum
I run our standups, sprint plannings, backlog refinements
Corporate citizenship
I am involved in recruiting 5-10% of my week
I run working groups / long running cross team tech org
Development
I do IC work - directly assigned sprint deliverable tickets (analysis, development, infra creation) I need to accomplish
I've been looking at moving to a more official management role elsewhere so I can focus at being good at a few things instead of decent at all the things.
As a senior IC in a super-flat & growing org.. I'm almost like a customer successs engineer, product manager, scrum master, senior developer and tech lead all rolled into one.
Management administrivia I accumulate administrative things my manager doesn't want to do & pushes down I do unofficially own a part of the team Dotted lines of devs in my "team" that can be rolled in & out sprint by sprint
Customer success / product / architecture I collect customer requirements, translate them into stories & documentation I manage customer/manager expectations with status meetings & reports I project plan out 3 months of work with JIRA hierarchies/Gantt chart I design solutions given the requirements
Scrum I run our standups, sprint plannings, backlog refinements
Corporate citizenship I am involved in recruiting 5-10% of my week I run working groups / long running cross team tech org
Development I do IC work - directly assigned sprint deliverable tickets (analysis, development, infra creation) I need to accomplish
I've been looking at moving to a more official management role elsewhere so I can focus at being good at a few things instead of decent at all the things.