I have time to code up little tools for myself and my team. I can now automate simple things quickly to improve workflow, like gathering all the modified tickets in the past 24 hours and writing them out in our daily sprint document (it's the process they want so I go with it). Am I directly contributing to the critical path code, no, but I'm able to understand more quickly. I'm a Sr SDM and have been divorced from daily code for several year, now I'm able to get a broad view of things more quickly. Even just the act of finding dependent packages removes a little friction which means I'm less likely to let it become a road hump.
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