Three times. Three times until your estimates mean something on what you are working on. The First Time – You’re new to whatever it is you’re creating. You are learning as you create, you are going down rabbit holes and filtering out new ideas and throwing away initial designs. The Second Time – You know enough to be dangerous, but you are still learning. You have picked up some tricks, did a learning and validation…
A good leader knows when to gear up. They know when there is work to do. If they don’t know what it is going to take, they know how to figure it out. They don’t have their finger on the pulse, their team is the pulse and they live and breath it. They know when it’s time to drop a gear and go faster and they know when it’s time to hit the higher ones.…
At some point in a remote meeting, depending on the complexity of the topic, not everyone is going to get it. That’s life, it’s going to happen. You can sit there trying to explain it for the fifth time or you can pull up the crappiest, most basic Paint program and draw it out for them. I swear, I have pulled up Visio, Figma, different drawing programs, UML diagrams, etc, etc – sometimes they work,…
Right now, at this moment, you will have a few meetings that will be remote today. You will have to convey your ideas from a box. The more people that are added to the meeting, the smaller that box will become and the greater the work to convey your message from that box will become. You can try talking over the speaker, but those days are long gone. We’ve all had a year of that…
On a new project, it’s easy to get rolled over by the tsunami of requests and requirements coming your way. Priority is becomes a game of “what isn’t a 1”? A simple way to approach this with your team is to start with three buckets; Have, Need, Want. Any requirement discussed has to go into one of those buckets, there is no fourth bucket. Each bucket is represented as follows; Have – we can’t go…