July 27, 2023
Sticky Notes make your tasks look simple. They lay it out. They come in different colours. They get assigned to different people. They make it all, make sense. But they don’t do the work, they don’t start doing the work. Most times, they sit there chirping at you for not doing the work. Doing the work is where you come in, what you are here for. To take each note, do the work, crumple it up, and throw it away. How you do it is entirely up to you.
July 24, 2023
Out of Office started as a physical associate with a building. You were either in the building or out of it – hence the auto-response. But now we are here, there, and everywhere and most of the time we are outside of the office. Presence engines use “Not Connected”, “Offline”, “Unavailable” or “Away” to explain when someone cannot take an instant message or call and this is shown by a variety of colors of icons as to when and where they are, sometimes with little notes attached. We’ve placed the focus on “alerting” people that we are out of the office when what
July 21, 2023
You can’t automate everything – the spark, the creative flow, the magic – that all invariably makes things work is why you are here, in the middle, to make things happen. Automation can only take you so far, but that’s when you take over to make it better. AI is a form of automation, where you take it is the value you, provide.
July 15, 2023
Sprints are a race to get work done in a smaller period of time. We’re not rushing to get work done, hopefully, we’re taking on just what we can, but the word itself is a sprint – so we are trying to get it all done. Farming on the other hand, is slow, meticulous, and planned out by pre-determined steps that take a period of time to accomplish. You can’t demonstrate farming at the end of two weeks to show how far you’ve come, because sometimes you can’t see it. You don’t always have to have an end demo for
July 14, 2023
The Awkward Path is the one that no one wants to take because it’s awkward. It’s not easy. It’s not clear-cut. It goes against everything that we have learned. We know we will stumble and who wants to do that? The Awkward Path is strewn with frustration and unknowns, it’s final destination always unclear. But the rewards, the gains that are created once the path goes from being awkward to comfortable when you reach that point in the path where you get it and know what you need to do next. Well, that’s when the path doesn’t look so awkward
