Someone makes a cool video and everyone jumps on. It becomes a trend and everyone starts to do it because they get views – the trend becomes bigger but then becomes stale as innovation drops. Now it’s just someone else doing the same thing they’ve seen a thousand (or more times). No one wants to do the same thing over and over again in life, but it exists for views (the exact opposite of why…
I’ve been on a project the last few months where I’ve had to do much of my own QA. I’ve had to write unit tests, write test plans, and test cases. I’ve had to debug assertions of what should and shouldn’t be. Turns out I’m not as great at QA (or diligent) as I thought I was. Worst yet, turns out there are a slew of errors in my code. So apologies to all of…
A plan is only as good as it’s execution. Otherwise, it’s an elaboration of an idea. And we have plenty of those.
We coach for wins, not for growth. Growth happens behind the scenes, no one sees it unless they look deep beneath the covers. But it’s always there. So what would happen if we coached for growth instead, letting the wins happen when they happen, and see where we get from there? What would be the harm? What could go wrong? Just growth.
“I want it all – that’s my Use Case.” That’s a pretty simple use case, but it never gets you anywhere unless you take the steps to make it happen – the mini use cases. I want it all is the use case for – I don’t want to think about the steps I need to take there and would rather dream about having it all. It’s the definition of steps and use cases that…