I’ve been in a few meetings over the past few months where a question is asked (a simple one, i.e., where we are at), and the responses are varied from all points of the delivery. This is good to have varying responses, however, the problem is that they don’t have anything to tie each other together. What are we releasing? When are we releasing it? What are the most important issues? Does the customer agree?…
I like the idea of auto-updates, when enabled, nothing gets left behind. The days of – “oh wait, you haven’t updated your server for the last five months” – are no longer conversations we need to have. I remember doing those “patch” nights where we would sit there and talk while someone patched the next server, then the next one, then waited for the next round of updates to come down, so we could do…
You start with Notepad. But you get better. You move onto Excel/Sheets. And you keep getting better. And then you bring in Trello. In doing this you don’t stop figuring out a better path. And then you move on to Azure DevOps or JIRA. You use the tool that makes the most sense, for the team you have, for the project you are trying to deliver. If you need JIRA and are using Notepad, you’re…
At this moment, where do you need to be? Where does your team need you to be? Are those two questions in direct opposition to each other? If they are, that might be part of the challenge you are having in not only leading yourself and but your team as well.
If your delivery dates are more dream than reality, you have a problem. It means there is a disconnect, a huge one between what your team is focused on and what they are being asked for. If I’m in a meeting and I start to see this happen, a small voice starts going off in my head – “No, no, no, no, no” – and that’s the warning sign (simple as it may be) that…