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Crushing Jira tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact
Tech companies care about projects, not tickets
I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did this once - is to get frustrated at the slow pace of a team and decide “screw it, I’ll just burn through all these tickets”. An engineer decides that some particular task is important (say, adding support for some obscure input format, or removing some piece of tech debt) and spends weeks or months working on this. Managers also tend to communicate gently about priorities: for instance, they’ll give lukewarm responses like “sure, if you think this is worth doing go ahead” instead of explicitly saying “I don’t see the value in this work”.
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