August 8, 2023
The origin of change is rooted in the consistency in implementing that change. No one wakes up wanting to do more work but if that is the path to the goal you seek, then that is the change you need to make. It won’t happen in an hour or overnight, only if you commit and are consistent towards that implementation.
August 3, 2023
Don’t complain. Don’t argue. Don’t pontificate. Don’t procrastinate. Just sit down (or standup) and do the work that is in front of you. It will be much faster than all of the above and you might it was more enjoyable by not doing all of the above.
August 1, 2023
I’ve sat in many Sprint Planning meetings and whether they go well or badly always comes to the same thing – what are we working towards? When everyone knows what they are working towards, and what the end goal is, they go very well, extremely well, and are very successful. When everyone doesn’t agree on what we are working towards, they go off the rails with esoteric discussions and back and forth on topics that take up the time in the discussion and end up providing little to no value. The team leaves the meeting wondering why they have to
July 31, 2023
It’s not going to turn out the way you are thinking, dreaming, envisioning it – it never does – it never will. You can either rail against the machine that what you tried to do fail and chalk it up as meaningless or you can look at what you accomplished. You delivered. Your team delivered. You learned new skills. You grew in the role that you have. You made mistakes, you fixed them. Not perfect, was never meant to be – the goal was to deliver.
July 29, 2023
If everyone is not on the page with what the end goal is, then when it’s time to celebrate the delivery of the end goal not everyone will be happy. If the goal is taking considerably longer than originally thought, it’s important for you to ensure that everyone is still on the same page as to what the end goal is and what the team is working towards. Workloads and priorities shift and it’s easy for anyone to get tunnel vision into what they are doing and lose sight of what they were originally trying to accomplish until it’s too
