Agile is famous for saying – “everyone owns the system” – but that’s not true, because not everyone wants to own a delivery system. Project to project, I don’t want to lead everything, sometimes I want to come in and deliver, work through coding problems, test, and move on. I don’t need to lead the project, I simply need to do my part and take the lead from others. But in every system, what makes…
There is no quick way to create a new process – no shortcuts or missed steps to be taken. But the hardest part is having faith in the process when you don’t know where it is going to end and you don’t know what the steps are. This doesn’t mean you are kept in the dark – maybe you know the milestones and that’s as far as it goes – maybe there are sub-points that…
It’s a tough question to ask of yourself because it can only be answered by yourself. But once you ask it, you know what you do and don’t bring. And what you don’t bring becomes the plan for you to figure out how to get there.
I don’t want pretty boxes. I don’t want the connection to file shares. I don’t want auto-syncing to different apps across every phone. I want a marker board, online, that lets me draw out ideas, throw the virtual marker to someone else where they can very easily wipe over everything, draw over everything, make a mess of what we are doing and then look at what we’ve created. I want it to somehow mimic how…
It happened, you have debt, and right now it might be akin to standing in a room with a mess all around you and you don’t know where to start. Despite everything that’s around you, you can’t do it all at once, to do so would mean putting the breaks on everything else you are doing – which most companies cannot afford primarily because customers are key. Where to start? Get the small wins -…