Are You Still Doing WorkYou Don’t Actually Need to Do?

 
12 questions to find out whether your website projects are using your development brain—or your entire brain.

You started developing websites because you like solving the hard stuff. Architecture. Integrations. Data. Custom functionality. The kind of problem that makes your brain sit up and say, “Oh, now THIS is interesting.” Then a project lands on your desk and suddenly you’re choosing typefaces, nudging buttons around, fighting with a page builder, translating a client’s vague design feedback, and wondering why you have become the entire web department.

This scorecard is for developers and agency owners who already know how to build websites but want a better way to handle the work around the development. It is not a test of whether you can technically do these things. You probably can. The question is whether you should still be the person doing all of them. Rate each statement from 1–5 based on what actually happens in your projects—not what you wish happened on a particularly optimistic Tuesday.

How to Score Yourself

For each statement, circle one number. Be honest. This score is more useful if you score the messy reality, not the version of your business you describe when someone asks, “So, how’s work?”