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…
It sucks. Yes it sucks. It’s not easy (I don’t think it was ever meant to be). A fantastic interview with Heather Caudill on how she has navigated the last year of leading teams remotely and not shying away from the hard conversations that need to happen for her team to succeed. Full episode is here.
If you want the members of your team to grow and become more than they are, you’re going to need to change your tactics. Placating them with platitudes of how great the work they are doing is, how well they are doing, how awesome they are, how you wish you had fifteen of them, how they should be doing your job, etc, etc, etc – is not going to help them grow. It’s going to…
This week, my car battery died. For two days it was a pain as I had no vehicle and had to get it replaced. Not being a car guy, this was a lot of on-the-spot learning in how to do this. What can I say, I get spooked when connecting high-voltage metal objects together. I had a great teacher and in less than an hour I was back up and running. Between it being broken…