Swim lane
Manager level. All phrases
| Means | Your job, as opposed to my job. Stay in it. |
|---|---|
| Lands | When overlapping ownership is causing duplicated work. |
| Backfires | When you say 'stay in your swim lane' out loud. Nobody recovers from that. |
Outlook: To avoid overlap, can we clarify swim lanes between design and product on onboarding?
Try it yourself. Drills give you a plain sentence to rewrite with this kind of phrase, then score how corporate you sound. Start training.
Next: Run it up the flagpole