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Succession planning
The aim of succession planning is to level up in your career by delegating and/or building better process and products.
Succession planning is a concept where you try to make yourself redundant in a workplace.
This seems like a counterintuitive idea. Why would you make yourself redundant? Wouldn’t that mean that you are no longer needed at a workplace?
Contrastingly, this is a nice way to level up in your career. Once you have built a product/team etc, you can delegate it to someone else for whom it will be a learning opportunity and you can work on tougher, more challenging problems or newer problems.
This is done by:
- Building better processes and products which can run on auto pilot or with minimal maintenance
- This can also be done by levelling up a junior who can take responsibilities of the products/areas that you are responsible for
- Delegating more and trusting in others to take good decisions
- Make a list of what you do: Audit meetings, to-dos and inbound chats
- Delegate or document the process so that most folks can learn abiout your work asynchronously
- Close the gaps wherever you can
This concept was taught to me by my first manager when I cribbed to him that I am getting too many PRs to review!