So I should continue doing nothing? If something happened when I did nothing why I should engage in more activity to do something? It’s a waste and effort of energy and what if nothing happens from me doing something, now I’ve spent all that time and gone nowhere. Confused? This is the circle of confusion where you are trying to convince yourself to do or to not do something. You can wrap yourself up in…
When it comes to being a part of a team, we all buy into wanting the team to succeed. Why not? It’s why we’re there. At some point, the workload becomes too much (it always does) and the team struggles to find new paths for efficiencies and growth. It doesn’t happen quickly, they have to flounder and fight against the current because they are now not only fighting against what is ingrained within them but…
We are one day away from getting everything you set out to do 11 months ago. If you haven’t gotten it all done, hurry up, stop wasting your time, get back in there, and get it done. No excuses, you should have had it all done by now, I have no idea what you were thinking or why you were thinking it. Get it together, get in there, and make it happen. (That’s where all…
The only losses that hurt, are the ones you ignore, write off and don’t learn from. Everything else is about growth and figuring out how to succeed next time. Don’t ignore the losses, grow from them.
Love them or hate them, Story points aren’t going anywhere. You can keep the debate rolling, you can keep arguing for points over hours or vice versa (I like vice versa myself). But remember, they aren’t called “Task Points”, there is, and always will be a duration to finishing a task – start, middle, end. Story points are an estimate, task work is the execution of the estimation, and you adjust your estimates (points) based…