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…
The question isn’t what you’re going to miss or when you are going to miss it, the question is whether you are going to let it derail you because you missed one thing, broke one streak, or didn’t get the result you wanted the first time. You’re Going to Miss Something, but what matters is what you do about it.