c/personality·Posted by u/omar_farouk·1h ago

How do detail people and big-picture people work together without clashing?

Sprint planning yesterday. Our PM put up a slide with three arrows and a sentence about where the product is going. I asked which columns we need in the tracker before we start. She looked at me like I'd asked for the font size of the dream. I'm the spreadsheet person. I want the edge cases, the names of the fields, who owns the messy middle. She wants the story. Both are useful. In the room it still feels like we're speaking different languages and mine sounds small. After the call I stayed on and cleaned the ticket titles because nobody else would. That's my whole personality at work. I'm not trying to kill the vision. I just can't move until the pieces have names. She's not wrong. I'm not trying to be difficult. How do you work with someone who thinks in posters when you think in rows? And how do you say I need the details without sounding like you don't get the point?

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