The only losses that hurt, are the ones you ignore, write off and don’t learn from. Everything else is about growth and figuring out how to succeed next time. Don’t ignore the losses, grow from them.
Love them or hate them, Story points aren’t going anywhere. You can keep the debate rolling, you can keep arguing for points over hours or vice versa (I like vice versa myself). But remember, they aren’t called “Task Points”, there is, and always will be a duration to finishing a task – start, middle, end. Story points are an estimate, task work is the execution of the estimation, and you adjust your estimates (points) based…
If you’re in the same meeting over and over and over again. It’s time to find a meeting where you aren’t. It’s time to find a team where it’s not the same. It’s time to find a project that won’t be holding you back.
The journey is the memory we talk of. It’s the in-between moments of everything that comes together when it comes together, and how it comes together. It’s the small stories that we reflect on and remember without hesitation. It’s the best of us and when we get to the destination, all we talk about are the bumps and adventures that happened in the journey. Don’t miss out on the journey, it’s not worth forgetting.
The coin. The clicks. The referrals. The follow-up work. The learning. The exposure. The freedom. You could be doing it for all these reasons and more (or less) – the problem is we often don’t know why we are doing something and then when our motivations, our reasons for doing it change – we get stressed, angry, or mad that it’s not what we want. The problem is we don’t know our motivation and nothing…