April 15, 2020
We all know who they are. The usual group that when they get together, the same results happen, or rather don’t happen. Nothing changes, progress creeps to a halt and the everyone wonders aloud what went wrong. For change to happen, you some times need to break up the suspects and put them in their own corners, let them go or walk away. Whichever you choose, know that it isn’t your fault
April 8, 2020
More than at any time before in the history of your team, the software you use, the software you are using will change your team culture. How and what you deliver will inevitably be impacted by the software you use and how you introduce it to your organization. Conferencing and communications are the first step but what comes next? Will people always be calling each other because they can’t wait for chats to come through? Will email go away because we are now relying on group chats and other mediums? Will you need to have these applications installed on your
April 7, 2020
Where you thought you had a connection with someone before, that connection might now be gone. In working with your peers, not everyone is going to want to work on video, not everyone is going to have perfect internet and not everyone will be flourishing working from their dining room table. You are going to need to establish new connections, new ideas and new patterns if you are going to get through us. No one said delivering this way would be easy, but no said it wouldn’t be possible. Those that find change hard will struggle the most, that’s where
March 30, 2020
I have played more video games in the past week than I probably have in the past year, easily. I have walked my dog more in the last few weeks than I did in the last month. I have watched more local news about my community, about those around me than I ever have (perhaps since I was a child). You don’t need to be doing something productive 24/7 to “get ahead”, you can do something that wastes an insurmountable amount of time if it gives you the break you need to get back in the game. That’s what breaks
March 26, 2020
It’s getting harder to maintain our focus on what needs to be done vs what is happening all around us. We are being torn in fifteen different directions at once with everything breaking at the same time. Our initial reaction is and always will be to yell out – “Hold on, let me think about this.” – but we don’t have that luxury around us. It reminds me of a release that is going sideways, customers are calling because things are breaking, vendors are calling because software is failing, managers are angry because it went out the door – there
