You are going to make good decisions, and you are going to make bad ones. You will not always get it right, no one has a hundred percent success rate. But you need to make a decision. Not making a decision, and spending more and more time arguing about the pros and cons is not helping your team, it’s confusing them. Make a call, admit when it’s wrong, don’t flaunt it when it’s right, and…
“We’ve been delivering based on our fires over the past two months.” That’s what you hear when you are focused on customer issues, in triaging the immediate and getting the fixes out the door before asap, where the customers are beating down the door to get your code to work. And you’ve probably been successful at this, but you can only do it for so long, there are only so many times you can plan…
The team meeting is the most hallowed of all meetings. It is a gathering of the minds of your team and the greatest opportunity for you to lay out the plans for the week and hear from your team about what they are doing, where they are struggling, where help is required, and most importantly where you can reassure them. Don’t ever show up unprepared for a team meeting, it’s your single, greatest tool in…
Of course, we don’t. That’s why we’re asking. A more accurate (and received response) would be – “let me explain”. Because that’s what will help me learn.
We romanticize failure infinitely too much. Yes, to grow you need to fail. But if you are failing all the time and in a spectacular fashion, perhaps the goal shouldn’t be to keep failing but to find a way to generate a win so you can build on that. At some point we need to succeed.