I’m fascinated with the Gutters. For all you comic book lovers out there, the Gutters are the space between the panels where the real action happens. It’s where our brains cross over from Panel A to Panel B and our brains intuit what is happening in between. The same applies to your meetings, the Gutters is where the real work happens, between Meeting 1 and Meeting 2. It’s where the success of Meeting 2 is…
Then you haven’t finished. It’s not rocket science, it’s not even basic science. If what you have finished doesn’t do what was intended, then you are not finished. You are just getting started, on your way to getting finished.
When I give a presentation, a demo, a walkthrough, anything. If there are no questions, I get squared. Really, really squared. Because if there are no questions it means any of the following; I completely missed the mark and delivered the wrong content.The people in attendance do not care about what I am presenting or the content I am putting forth.No one understands what I have just said.They are confused. None of these are good…
Yes, having a process is good, it’s needed It’s what is going to make you a success and enable you to build a repeatable system that you can accrue economies of scale from. At the end of the day, that is the heart of a process, that is the reason we implement it – to get better. A process is the equivalent of a well-run practice designed to get you to learn a particular technique…
At some point in a project, features will be cut (unless you have inifinite time, resourcs and absurdly patient customers). On a first release, it is inevitable – you’ve hit issues you didn’t expect, run up against the wall against problems you didn’t even know existed, when the user saw what they were getting they wanted to change things up, etc, etc. The list goes on. When this happens, the question that everyone has to…