December 11, 2018
Understanding Requirements
Of all my SlideShares, this one remains my favourite – “How to Write Great Requirements”. In the almost four years since I wrote it, we still haven’t got it right. It’s not perfect, but it’s a start.
Articles for category: Leadership
December 10, 2018
Asking for Validation or Asking for Feedback
We sometimes ask for Feedback, expecting validation in return. “This is perfect” “Great plan” “I like this approach” “No comments” And when we receive feedback we are disgruntled at what we get back. “It’s good but have you tried this?” “What if we incorporated this as well?” “I have some other ideas if you want to hear them?” This is feedback, these are comments that are designed to provide you with mechanism you need to improve on what you are doing and get better. The former, are platitudes, validation and praise for what you are doing – whether warranted or
December 4, 2018
New Leader, New Leader, New Leader !!!!!
The promise of someone to come in, take the reigns and save the day is always met with one of two responses. Great – here are all our problems, they’re all yours now. Whatever. Most believe the second to be the incorrect response when really it is a sign as to the team having a good understanding of the problem and realizing that throwing people at it will not solve it. The first sets this new person up to fail against all odds trying to fix every problem that has ever happened only because they have the title of Leader
November 29, 2018
Say It
Despite the feedback you might get, it will always be better to have said something than to have said nothing at all and always wondered what could have been had you spoken up. Say It and encourage others to Say It too.
November 21, 2018
Superstar’s Lament
We all have that one person on our team that is always getting it done. The work they do is unparalleled. They see through the trees to get to the forest. They read a short blog and know what to do. Where they start is where others give up. But the worst part of being a Superstar? Is that we constantly overload them. We keep giving them more work to do. We keep pouring it on because “only they can do it”. We ignore their requests to move onto something else and try something new. What we should be doing,