How you think about maintaining this balance will be specific to your team and company, but it's worth talking about factors that influence your tilt towards visibility or team investment, as well as what stakeholders perceive your utilization rate to be
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If your team is unhappy or your stakeholders are unhappy, you're in for a rough time, and it only gets rougher when they're at each other's throats. If working with a stakeholder makes a DS bristle, the stakeholder will think a DS is using their time poorly almost no matter what
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Avoiding personality mismatches is a good way to control perceived utilization rates up front, and in general, will save the manager a lot of interpersonal-drama-induced headaches.
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Each of these four things is a rich topic in and of itself, and even though they're not all equally visible, each has an impact on how stakeholders perceive a DS's work. DS managers don't necessarily have to talk about these factors, but they absolutely should keep them in mind
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Visibility is an important organizational currency to accrue, but it's a currency that's also easy to spend quickly. Investing in your team and infra will enable you to expand breadth and depth of your team's work, and make it possible to do even more visible work in the future
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Seeing is believing for stakeholders, but one can not live on belief alone.
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