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…
You don’t always need to be the leader, sometimes you need to be the glue. Sometimes all your team needs is someone holding them together as they work through a tough release or deliverable. They don’t need future inspiration that will come down the road. They need someone focused on the now to get them through it.
Everything requires maintenance. Including your Career. And if you’re not maintaining any of it, you’re not building it, expanding it, and taking it as far as it can go. Do courses that excite you. Watch videos that interest you. If you leave it up to someone else, they’ll simply provide you with a book that tells you when to do something (but not push you to do it).
We’re at the beginning of AI… We have to ask for work to get done. We have to review what gets done. You can’t take what AI gives you and run with it without checking it over, it needs you to do that, you are the one who is going to take what AI is giving you and make it better. I know I have to dig more into AI, to see how it can…
If you’re not getting selected. If you’re not getting the opportunities you want. If you find yourself lacking. The only way to get there is to train better – whatever that better is, it’s the only way. And only you can do it.