If you’re trying to accomplish 4 – 5 projects concurrently that you’ve identified as being of value and where you want your focus to be. You need to ship on those projects each and every day. It doesn’t matter if it’s 5 minutes, 2 hours, the entire afternoon or all day. You ship something that you didn’t ship yesterday every day. Assuming you do 5 minutes a day for a week – that’s 35 minutes…
What do you like? Because there will be things that they like. What do you not like? Because there will be things that they will not like and this is much more important than what they do like. What do you feel is missing? Because once they see it, they will start thinking about what they want to see next. Are there changes we should be making? Because having a thought for change or what…
Deliveries are our most visible “wins”, but they are a double-edged sword. Leapers are always aware to not let things like process, methodology, meetings, extraneous decision making and other activities become slated as “deliverables”. Attending a meeting is not a delivery. Sending in your status report is not a delivery. Ensuring your team knows when the customer is expecting those last second hot-featured fixes and having it in their hands a day early IS…
I had become very dismayed with the default podcast on my iPhone lately. The biggest feature that was driving me over the edge was the “You haven’t listened to this in awhile, we’ve stopped downloading it” function which cannot be turned off. There are two problems with the implementation this function; The assumption that I have not listened to casts in awhile because I have chosen not to do so (when this is wrong, the…
Everything you code is a product. Whether it’s for an internal user or an external customer. They are both paying for it. They both need you to support it. They both want it yesterday. You wouldn’t treat one different than the other. So now we know we are building products regardless of who our customer is and what schedule or process we use to deliver it. It’s all product. There is no project.