There are one of two things happening today. You are resting on your laurels, basking in the glory that everything you set out to do you got done. You are scrambling to get everything done in one day thinking it will make a difference and you can check that you got it all done. Neither is right, and neither is wrong, but no matter your goals, one or maybe both of those are happening. When…
New Plans are wrought from failed plans. They are built from the ashes of things that have gone wrong with the original plan with the hope to start again. Everyone loves a new plan when it finally comes into effect. But what hurts them, what holds them back is the admission that they were not needed until it was simply too late to put them into effect.
You might do better when in a time crunch, but there is always that moment when you are grinding it out when you say to yourself – “If I had started this a few days ago, I would have been so far ahead.” But you’re not, you’re here and now you’re at the whims of all those around you trying to complete the same task, on the same day at the same time. Hope all…
Sprints are built around a release and go iteration by iteration, they have goals, they have plans and they have a direction. But sometimes you need a much more focused sprint, around a problem, around an initiative, where it’s not just about the user stories and the tasks to be done, it’s about what you need to accomplish. The focused sprint isn’t about the release and the delivery, it’s about the thing you need to…
Whether it’s real or manufactured, the time crunch is inevitable. There are only so many hours left to get something done. Time is finite, the crunch occurs because time is finite, if time were not limited, there would be no crunch. The hard decisions then become determining what can be done in the crunch – no one wants to make these decisions because that means something won’t get done. But that’s what a Leader has…