October 2, 2021
We all have ToDo Lists for all sorts of things. Depending on what you’re working on now, you might have one for a particular team activity – the upcoming project plan, the completion of a feature, the final code rush. Whatever it is, it’s a ToDo list for the team. And its only value is if the Team is following it – otherwise, it’s just a list.
October 1, 2021
It can be hard to read the room when you can’t see everyone, you can’t see how they are sitting, if they are slouching, what they are doing, are they listening, did they lean forward for that last comment, are they staring up at the sky. The kneejerk reaction is to tell everyone to turn on the video. The reaction of the leader is to figure out why everyone isn’t in engaged in what they are doing and what needs to be done to make it happen.
September 28, 2021
I’ve written before about going into a cave. Sometimes you need to do it, sometimes you need to leave your team to do it. But you can’t do it every day. You can’t do it all the time when something goes wrong. The cave is where you are most productive without hindering your team’s productivity. If you’re always in the cave, you’re not doing you’re best work, you’re hiding.
September 24, 2021
The task itself doesn’t get easier. You get better. And it becomes easier. You learn what makes it difficult and come with ideas, suggestions, and new paths to figuratively make it better, make it easier, but the task itself never changed. You did. It only stays difficult, when we refuse to change.
September 22, 2021
How many times does this keep having to be said? I’m not sure, but for review… If you trust your team, if you have faith in your team, it does not mean things will go well, it does not mean the journey will be smooth, it does not mean that everything will go perfectly well and you and them will become superstars. You will screw up, they will screw up – but you will trust that each other was doing their best when they did screw up. All it means is that you will do it together, you will get
