My senior is painstakingly stringent about requirements, but bad at communicating the entirety of the requirements in this person’s mind. I elicit requirements, but the hyper-specificity isn’t fully communicated to me.

It’s lead to some frustrating situations where I believed I knew what was being asked, but the end result wasn’t what was expected and we both got frustrated.

I plan to ask a LOT more questions (if an annoying amount) to avoid this again. But what else can be done?

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Standard intake process. Parrot back to them your understanding within 4 hours within your framework. Ask for clarity where it is missing: deadlines, domains, direction, ask explicitly for out of scope, and finish off with confirming where this fits within your prioritization. (Indicating what other projects this interferes with)

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This helps a lot, thank you! This is also a first time Manager and, with me being the only direct report, there’s some things on his end to work on as well. I’m the guinea pig in a way.

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