That’s our goal. That’s what I heard our goal was – “Just Above the Bare Minimum.” If there was a place not to set the bar, that was it, because it’s so low, you can step right over it. Be better than the Bare Minimum… or just above it.
We never have time to do anything that we will know will one day break until that one fateful day when it breaks, in the worst possible way. Then we have all the time in the world.
A retrospect only works when people are accountable for their actions. If there is no accountability, there is no moving forward and if there is no moving forward, you will never see the value accrued from a true retrospective.
The last month I’ve been blocked on lots of writing, missed a few days, and wondered if I should go back to it. Some days I have phoned it in and dragged myself to do it. My back bank (all the work in the queue behind it) has definitely been a lifesaver, but now it’s time to get back in there. This reminds me of code that I don’t want to go back to and…
A team is made of many people, but what matters, where the difference lies, is in what you bring to it. We forget to ask this question of ourselves, but when we do, when we do ask it, it almost always causes us to pause as we think of what it does the team needs from us – what can we contribute, how can we lead, what can we offer. And if you are leading…