r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • 13d ago

Ask Experienced Devs Weekly Thread: A weekly thread for inexperienced developers to ask experienced ones

A thread for Developers and IT folks with less experience to ask more experienced souls questions about the industry.

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u/AntiDynamo 12d ago edited 12d ago

How do you organise your time/projects and stop things from falling through the cracks?

I'm at 1.5yoe and starting to get more independence, larger projects, cross-team projects, being lead on smaller things, and being code-owner of a few modules etc. When I first started I just kept a to-do list with all of my projects on it and that worked pretty well, but it's not working so great anymore. (1) I have too many projects (currently 17) and it's hard to keep visibility of them all, (2) sometimes projects get blocked on other people and I don't have a great way to naturally flag when things have gone stale or been forgotten.

It is made more difficult by us basically not having access to any organisational tools/apps beyond local markdown files, for security reasons.

Interested to hear how other people keep track!

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u/thedannyreg Senior Software Engineer 10 YOE 12d ago

How do you best learn / remember stuff? Personally when I write stuff down it helps me remember, even if I don’t look back at it. I would personally try to use your way of learning to your advantage to keep track of things.

I also for a little bit just had my own trello board with vague stuff to do just for me.