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Manage them with listicles! Everyone loves those. They solve every problem. Have a problem that seems complex and want to make sure you give a nod to everyone who matters but really just make a bunch of words and no cohesive strategy?

Listicle it!



Whenever I'm presented with a problem that I don't have enough information to meaningfully estimate, a "helpful" manager suggests "breaking it down into subtasks". I usually end up breaking it down into tasks something like:

1) Figure out what's going on 2) Fix it


It's ok to break it down iteratively, so after figuring it out you can get back to the list of subtasks and update them




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