Delegating Tasks

 Your manager asks you to delegate more work to other engineers so you can scale yourself. What do you do?

Here's the simplest way to remember: think about each piece of work you delegate like a one-pager.

One-pagers include:
• Problem
• Goal
• Solution
• Alternatives
• Risks

Start at the top. Always tell them the problem (or the "why"). Then, continue down the list as far as you'd like, but stop when you're confident the other person can handle the rest.

You can use engineering levels/titles as a rule of thumb, but it doesn't always need to map to that. For example,
• Staff engineer -> stop at "Problem"
• Senior engineer -> stop at "Goal"
• Mid-level engineer -> stop at "Solution"
• Entry/Junior engineer -> cover most or all

When you want to challenge them, stop earlier. Let them take on more and give them that growth opportunity.

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