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Ask HN: How do you track your work contributions effectively?

3 pointsby 2bor-2n7 months ago
I&#x27;m looking for better ways to track my work contributions and progress, both for my own reference and for communicating with my team&#x2F;manager. Currently, I struggle with:<p>Remembering all the small but important contributions I make throughout the sprint&#x2F;quarter Quantifying impact in meaningful ways Keeping track of indirect contributions (helping others, reviewing PRs, mentoring)<p>What systems&#x2F;tools&#x2F;methods have worked well for you? How granular do you get with tracking? And how do you present this information during performance reviews or 1:1s? Particularly interested in hearing from both ICs and managers about what they find most valuable in contribution tracking.

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syndicatedjelly7 months ago
gh pr list --state merged --limit 250 --author &lt;your_github_id&gt;<p>Then fill in the details. I just spend a few hours before a review doing it, instead of painstakingly curating a list over time. Trust your memory, if something wasn&#x27;t important enough to remember, then it probably wasn&#x27;t important to begin with.<p>I do also keep a `career-dev` repo in my GitHub, and make a new markdown file for each year. There I can put things like Mermaid Gantt charts and other diagrams, including work artifacts, and then send the whole file to my manager. I got the maximum raise possible last year, and my manager greatly appreciated the work I put in to make his life easier in justifying a raise for me.