What is the one metric that defines you? What is the one metric that people think of when they think of you? What is the one metric you want to be known for? That metric could be anything. It’s yours to identify, yours to figure out, yours to make it your own.
The Big Event is what you are getting ready for. The release of your software. The presentation you’ve spent the last month working on. The proposal you’ve spent the last week on. The purchase you’ve been saving for. The Big Event is whatever it is that you’ve been wanting to accomplish, working on it bit by bit each day. The Big Event is here – hope you’re ready.
No matter how well you plan, moving from one place to the other, is never perfect and is always chaotic. Even moving from one room to another, something will fail – a wire will get tweaked, something that stood perfectly for years now falls over, and worst, something might break. You get to the place, and despite all of your best labeling, you have no idea where anything is and all you want to do…
You will be overloaded in all your work items. There will come a time when you have too much on your plate and you’re not sure what to do. Lists are good, lists help you prioritize, but the bigger question is why you have so much on your plate. If you’re using a type of board to manage your work for everyone to see, the best thing you can do here is ensure that what…
When you’re in a rush to get something done (i.e., it’s blowing up in PRD), all you can think about is getting it fixed as quickly as possible. And then you step back, look at what you wrote and go “how could I have written this”? So now, you’re into refactoring mode, cleaning things up and making them more optimal/stable/better for everyone involved. Rushed deliverables are akin to working in an ER (although lives hopefully…