*Just to clarify, unsexy means the stuff nobody really wants to do.<p>I'm currently working on a large project that is maturing and I'm trying to figure out what I can do on the side to support the team and increase the overall project quality.<p>I'm aiming to work on my overall knowledge of the tools and systems used by engineers, PMs, scrum master, etc. The idea being that if someone needs help with something I may be able to contribute something useful.<p>So far I've been trying to identify the most impactful tasks, some of which might be:<p>- Gathering statistics about, and contributions made, to the project daily and generating a newsletter after each release. This could be automated and would help with distributing knowledge across the entire team.<p>- Fixing linter warnings in the code base. Warnings can be introduced for many different reasons and some get very little attention.<p>- Documenting why something was added as a dependency during development. For example in our frontend stack there are tons of dependencies that have been added by senior members of the team but the reasoning was never communicated.<p>- Refactoring.<p>- Performance optimisations for web API calls or improving web API designs.<p>- Accessibility improvements.<p>- User experience improvements, maybe things like animations. I like to think of this as making the UI "juicy"<p>- ???<p>I'd like to know what others feel has had the most impact for their project or team.