Then go to the backlog and work on it. Ask your Product Manager what you can tackle. Look ahead to the next sprint. If your plate is clean, fill it up. Stop waiting for work to be assigned and start assigning it yourself.
There is a kick in your step today as you start the first day of the New Year. Similar to the first day of a New Sprint where there is a kick to everything you are doing as you start fresh on the work you are doing. It doesn’t matter if the sprint has rolled over, if it’s continuing what you did before, or if it’s a bug being reported – you can’t change the…
There are one of two things happening today. You are resting on your laurels, basking in the glory that everything you set out to do you got done. You are scrambling to get everything done in one day thinking it will make a difference and you can check that you got it all done. Neither is right, and neither is wrong, but no matter your goals, one or maybe both of those are happening. When…
New Plans are wrought from failed plans. They are built from the ashes of things that have gone wrong with the original plan with the hope to start again. Everyone loves a new plan when it finally comes into effect. But what hurts them, what holds them back is the admission that they were not needed until it was simply too late to put them into effect.
We all know where we excel and the value we provide. The hard part is showing it to others when it’s not clear what the path is. And who wants to talk about what they are good at? Not easy, but maybe it’s a question to ask of yourself to know where you are going next.