Finally walking away from work several hours late - I've started taking on writing up specs for our development team, a responsibility that has not been staffed well so I've volunteered. CW for length
As a developer I've always preferred designing and building new software solutions rather than putting my time into:
- tracking
- documentation
- QA
These things still need to be done.
I've run my own consulting business before and hated the billing and collections side of things. Meanwhile I've also led billing and collections departments before. I think it's de-prioritzing what isn't my *primary* responsibility.
The last 2 days I've taken on no development work (aside from rapid prototyping and testing out ideas as I work through the architecture design has been fun), in favor of leading a new process for how we document requirements and functional designs.
It's been strangely... fulfilling, discovering that that this forces me to work through issues well in advance of when we'd find them without the formal spec writing process; it helps to get the business and the technical team on the same page and having more in depth and meaningful conversations.
