Yes, we all have remote fatigue. But remember the excitement you had the first time you started up ICQ with this incredibly simple username that was easy to remember that you then used to login and connect with people not only in your office but remotely? I remember the first time I could chat at my desk with my wife at work using GTalk. Maybe what you don’t need is the latest, fanciest and greatest…
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…
They start small and when they hit their peak, they build momentum until they become unstoppable. Since April, I’ve been working on a few. They aren’t peaking at this point, but like everything, I track my effort and they are growing at a rate which shows progress. Every few months I push it a little more, only because I want to see what I can do but mainly so I can stabilize a habit at…
You might be talking a lot these days. Your calendar might be completely blue. And you might be having great discussions. But two weeks later you might also be wondering why nothing is changing and why what you thought were the actions never happened. It could be because you are not structuring your conversations around outcomes you want to see. Outcomes are bigger then agenda items, they are what you need to see happen next,…
Because it’s supposed to be. That’s what happens when you try something new. If it’s not awkward, you’re not trying. You’re watching and waiting to see if it’s worth giving it a try based on what everyone else is doing. When you try out a big new initiative or idea and it doesn’t pan out, it’s awkward. It doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth it.