June 16, 2022
Next is what we are all after. We don’t always know what next is, but we know it is the next thing that we want to go for, it’s the next thing we want to achieve. The goal then is to figure out what you need to do, to get to Next, and start the plan to get there. Sounds like lots of “thinking” work and not enough “doing” work, but if you’re not willing to think about where you want to go, how will you know what you are going to do when you get there?
June 8, 2022
When everyone thinks you are delivering something different. It’s a good time, no it’s the best time to sit down with everyone and make sure you are all talking about the same thing. When this happens, you might be the facilitator more than anything in the conversation, not trying to push people to what you see as the delivery, but rather poking holes in what the ideas of others are (respectfully) to make sure everyone agrees. When I find myself in these meetings, I like to keep bringing people back to the question at hand to drive the point home
June 1, 2022
If you are never taking the moment to step back and let watch who on your team will take the reigns and run with them, then how will you know what they are capable of. The fallacy of many leaders is that they feel like they can’t step back at all because “the team will fall apart” or “they won’t be able to do it” without me there. The truth is, they are most likely going to be able to do it better than you ever have (which is what you want), but they are living in your shadow and
May 30, 2022
What to do, what to do when you are only half completed the work in a story and you’re at the end of a Sprint. There are two schools of thought here. Move the Story to the next Sprint. Split the remaining work into the next sprint. I generally opt for Number 2, when you do Number 1, all you are doing is shoveling the work to a different corner of the room hoping it’s going to get down and not realizing what might be the problem, is that the work left to do isn’t the entire story. When you
May 29, 2022
There is a temptation to shift the duration of your sprint when it isn’t going as expected. Maybe more customer issues came in, maybe your estimates were off, or perhaps most of the team was out sick with the stomach flu, whatever the reason, the temptation to add a few days or weeks is always there so we can say that we finished work “within the sprint”. The problem with this approach is that your Sprint never ends, and once you do it once, it gets easier to do it again and again and again until you are on week
