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I've traditionally called this the "brag sheet", that focuses on highlighting value and a high level summary.
For things such as reliability engineering and others with less tangible "deliverables" to demo and showcase it's even more important. A lot of the backend work can go unseen and unappreciated in the midst of the chaos of work without it.
yes, this is basically a weekly brag sheet, or prep for future work to compile a brag sheet
category: Note published: true slug: the-importance-of-writing-weekly-updates
We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's Coding Career Community meetup. I rarely get so excited about an idea I immediately know I need to start doing it, so I'm choosing to write it up to commit to it, and to share it with you.
As well known of a writer I might be externally, I think I am appalling at it at work. I tend to keep my activities and observations to myself, to silo my interactions with people I have 1:1s with, and to only occasionally and verbally share it with my managers. I don't think it helps, but am also worried that if I really share everything I think, I might piss off somebody I work with by errors of commission and omission.
After today's reminder, I'd like to change that.
The 15-5 format
Specifically, the format that seems to be very popular in tech is the 15-5 format. @GergelyOrosz summarizes it as such:
@EugeneYan reported very good results doing this as a blog and even having some unrelated coworkers subscribe to it!
Being a startups guy I knew about 15five from Jason Calacanis' LAUNCH incubator (2012 pitch here) but I had never really tried it out. I have also admired Know Your Team from afar and at AWS we had a daily survey system called Amazon Connect (not the call center product, also called Amazon Connect). (please let me know if there are other popular frequent feedback software out there).
I did some digging and apparently the 15-5 was created by Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia in the 1980's.
Specifics of the 15-5 format are unclear:
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Will Larson also concurs:
Finally, Jay in our group also shared Sriram Krishnan's Exec 101 post advice which features this:
That's enough convincing for me to do it.