You start here. Today. Now. If the group you are with doesn’t want to start, it’s the wrong group for you to be with. If all everyone wants to do is complain about the problem, then go work on the problem. You don’t need to be part of the meeting, and meeting and meeting and meeting to keep talking about the problems. You know what the problems are. Now go and fix them.
Start at the simplest of building blocks. Ignore the symptoms, find the cause, and find the root cause. Being there. It won’t be the popular choice, it will be the needed choice. It’s not the easiest one to make, but it is the one that everyone needs.
If everything, everywhere, and everyone is constantly changing. Then you never know how you are doing because you have nothing to measure against the rate you change. When something is wrong, change one thing, measure it, and move forward. Change one thing, measure it, and move forward. Change one thing, measure it, and move forward. Change one thing, measure it, and move forward. This is how you determine whether your changes are having an impact…
Guaranteed, you will lose. Sometimes it will be a close loss (almost finished to the demo and then a pesky little pixel disrupted the whole thing). Sometimes it will be an epic shutdown on the launch pad that will pull down everything. Other times it might be trying to push things a bit too far and you destroy it all. It’s all a loss – it doesn’t matter whether it’s close or far away -…
Your Place of work is anywhere you want it to be. Go to an office. Go to your desk. Go to a coffee shop. But make it useful, make it productive, make it valuable. If you’re not getting anything, it’s no longer your place of work. It’s just a place, but it needs to be a place where you get things done.