I’ve sat in many Sprint Planning meetings and whether they go well or badly always comes to the same thing – what are we working towards? When everyone knows what they are working towards, and what the end goal is, they go very well, extremely well, and are very successful. When everyone doesn’t agree on what we are working towards, they go off the rails with esoteric discussions and back and forth on topics that…
It’s not going to turn out the way you are thinking, dreaming, envisioning it – it never does – it never will. You can either rail against the machine that what you tried to do fail and chalk it up as meaningless or you can look at what you accomplished. You delivered. Your team delivered. You learned new skills. You grew in the role that you have. You made mistakes, you fixed them. Not perfect,…
Any job has a stressful component to its delivery. No job is perfectly stress free (sorry) and some are much more than others. Yes, pizza lunches don’t solve the bigger problem, but when bought from your manager’s pocket for the benefit of their team – yes, it is worthwhile and can be appreciated as they try to do something with all that they have available to them. Perhaps it won’t solve all the problems, but…
If everyone is not on the page with what the end goal is, then when it’s time to celebrate the delivery of the end goal not everyone will be happy. If the goal is taking considerably longer than originally thought, it’s important for you to ensure that everyone is still on the same page as to what the end goal is and what the team is working towards. Workloads and priorities shift and it’s easy…
Priorities are going to push your goals down, you might have 7 things you want to accomplish but can only get to 5 on a good week. You can either turf the other 2 or switch up the priorities – that’s the either/or option. The other option is to take a look at your 5 other priorities and think about what you need to do to enable the other 2 to happen, how can you…