You’re a newbie and you’ve just joined a big #Salesforce Consulting Partner. (Yess! 👊🏻) You also just landed your first project (Awesome! 💃🏻)
But it’s in-flight (meaning it’s already kicked off) and you’re given user stories to own, finesse and build with the assistance of your development team.
The User Stories are incomplete, with process maps that doesn’t quite seem to make sense.
So you prepare, and you put together information from the sparse and not-quite complete documentation that you’ve got, only to be told that you’re on the wrong track.
Not only that, but you’ve been told not to ask the clients too many questions because “This isn’t Discovery.”
😱
And now you’ve got the weekend to prepare for the Monday workshop with the client to groom the backlog.
This isn’t a great place to be, because you’re left with the proverbial butt flapping in the wind (as the English like to say… or maybe it’s just my Husband’s sense of humour 😐).
To move forward properly, confidently knowing that you’re going in the right direction – you really need some guidance to know what’s happening and get the information you need to orient yourself correctly.
I hate this “Don’t ask too questions or the client will figure out that we aren’t too clear on what we are doing” business.
Soooo many 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
How did the project get this way?
Where’s the onboarding document?
Where’s the internal kick-off?
Where’s the project governance??
And most importantly – How else is the newbie consultant going to learn?!
I’m feeling really cross. 😡
Newbie’s going to have to tough it out somehow, and try to get the answers she needs to push forward.
She’s going to get through this “character building” project and get on the next one, and see if this behaviour is a pattern in the company.
Because if it is, and I was her, I’d be gone quicker than you can say, “Adios amigo!” 💨
Newbie, you know who you are.
Sending you so much hugs and ❤.