A retrospect only works when people are accountable for their actions. If there is no accountability, there is no moving forward and if there is no moving forward, you will never see the value accrued from a true retrospective.
The last month I’ve been blocked on lots of writing, missed a few days, and wondered if I should go back to it. Some days I have phoned it in and dragged myself to do it. My back bank (all the work in the queue behind it) has definitely been a lifesaver, but now it’s time to get back in there. This reminds me of code that I don’t want to go back to and…
A team is made of many people, but what matters, where the difference lies, is in what you bring to it. We forget to ask this question of ourselves, but when we do, when we do ask it, it almost always causes us to pause as we think of what it does the team needs from us – what can we contribute, how can we lead, what can we offer. And if you are leading…
I like to think of the old adage of hand-offs as being a very simple one. Imagine the person you are handing off your work to is you. How well will you write your comments? How much information will you fill out in the description of the story? Will you give them access to the information in the documents? How many barriers will you put in place? Start with what you want to receive, than…
None really. We think all the levels matter, we think being at the uppermost level matters because that is where we will do our best work. But it’s not, our best work is what we do, at the level we are in that makes that level something more, makes it bigger, makes it better, and changes the level for whoever comes next. The level is a starting point, from there on in, it’s up to…