When a new team comes together there is a period of gelling that needs to happen where we go beyond – who you are and where did you come from – and get into the grittier work of having the team come together. Things like; What’s your zone time where you do your best work?Where are you working and where do you want grow?How do you manage your own workload?What support do you need from…
Means something went wrong. Whatever it was that you were planning didn’t work out. The plan you had set in motion, broke and now you need to find a new plan. Bad News is happening all around us. What we do with it is still up to us.
Not the Trigger. But the Cue. The Cue is different from the trigger. The trigger gets us angry, gets us mad, makes us unfocused and frustrated. It pushes us to places we don’t need to be going to. But the Cue? The cue is our internal notification that we are needed, that it’s time to step up, that someone needs our help, that it’s time to jump in, help and grow the team. Take the…
This is the question that many of us can’t answer. What do we actually want? We look at user stories and features, what is in the backlog, what was discussed in a meeting and we assume that is “what the user wants”. But it really isn’t. How many times have you built something, thinking it was the right thing to build only to have an end user go – “that’s not what I was looking…
The word alone raises images of bureaucracy, slowed down deliverables, and processes that seek to create more processes. Let’s not even get into committees that report to commitees. The thing with committees, is they are safe. But change that membership name to a group and it becomes something different. The people involved are engaged, eager to work with each other and they have a common goal in mind. Change it to a team and it…