It’s going to. Things will not go your way. Things will not work out. Things will go sideways. Your plans will falter. You have two options, Leave it be. Make new plans. New plans might falter too, but they are better than doing nothing.
Who cares? Everything gets off to a slow start. At least in someone else’s eyes. There are no slow starts, only never started.
There is no best ice cream. There is a favourite ice cream. There is my “Goto” ice cream. There is “I feel like this today” ice cream. There is “I can’t eat that” ice cream. There is “my only choice” ice cream. But there is no best, there never has been, there never will be. Just like many other things, there is no best, but there are many other categories that you and your product…
How many times did you say this PC? (Pre-Cloud) I remember physically going into someone’s office to pick up their machine so we could debug why some code wasn’t working on their machine. You can’t do that anymore, it’s not possible. Now instead of “My Machine”, it’s “My Environment” – things can work in one and not in the other, but the steps remain the same. What’s the difference? What’s there that isn’t here? How…
What happens if you paused the current sprint? The current sprint that was in trouble. That was broken. That wasn’t working. That was churning and churning with nothing to show. The sprint that was filled with bugs because requirements were missed? You know the sprint. You’ve lived that sprint. Now what if you hit pause and figured out what you want to do next, turfed what wasn’t working, kept what was, fixed the team issues…