What do you do if your IT team needs to delegate tasks for improved productivity?

I like to tell my team that productivity is a myth that the ruling class has foisted upon us to rob us of the compensation that we're entitled to based on the surplus value we generate. No meaningful conversation about productivity can be had until the working class is directly benefitting above and beyond base salary. In layperson's terms, we should all act our wage. In the United States, the path for doing this is long and arduous: union organizing. Depending on the source, union workers make between 10% and 20% more than their non-union counterparts. Significantly more union workers have access to healthcare over non-union workers. That is until SCOTUS fucks us all with their likely decision to nullify the NLRB.

To delegate tasks effectively for improved IT team productivity, assess the team's workload and match tasks with individuals based on their skills and current responsibilities, ensuring a balance of workloads. Communicate expectations clearly, including outcomes, resources, support, and deadlines, while providing the necessary context and guidance for each task. Encourage open communication for questions or concerns. Monitor progress and provide constructive feedback, recognizing achievements and addressing issues promptly. Regular check-ins allow for mentoring, skill development, and adjustment of task assignments as needed. Effective delegation involves clear expectations, support, and feedback, enhancing team productivity and performance

If your IT team needs to delegate tasks for improved productivity, you can consider implementing a task management system to assign and track tasks, clearly define roles and responsibilities, set clear goals and expectations, and provide regular feedback and support to team members. Effective communication and collaboration tools can also help streamline task delegation and ensure that everyone is on the same page.

Assessing needs with the team is necessary to map the current context, for better decision making and even appropriate prioritization, using a simple MoScOw technique

With the applied MoScOw technique we can set priorities in a simple and objective way, acting on what is really a priority to attack first.

By leaving the team very well organized and with clear rules and instructions for action, self-organization will be applied and activities will be carried out in a clearer and more objective way.

Monitoring the progress of activities and actions through management tools such as JIRA or TRELLO is necessary for transparency and inspection/adaptation of the team on the action fronts.