Baselines establish where you are at. Every Survival movie starts the same way – “What do we have?” – that’s the baseline. When you know what you have, and where you are starting from, it makes it that much easier to figure out where you want to go and what you want to accomplish.
The bench does not get built overnight. Building your leadership team takes time. It takes thought, on both sides, those putting out the offerings, and those receiving them. Our natural inclination is to rush in and build a team as quickly as we can, but this will always fail as quickly as we started. Take the time, find the right people, talk to them, build the bench you need for today and tomorrow.
I’ve started to see more and more articles cropping up on delivery teams. I have yet to write my own but this is great to see. I’ve been using the term for a few years now as I’ve worked with more and more teams on the software delivery front. The idea for it came from the idea that it takes multiple roles to deliver a software solution, in a small company those roles can overlap…
Getting mad at “something” at work is a sign that you care. Pure and simple – you care. If you’re not getting mad (and I don’t mean chair-throwing mad, but frustrated mad) then you don’t care about what you’re doing. And if you don’t care about what you’re doing…. then…
You can’t change everything. It’s worth stating that in all of your daily interactions, you might only be able to change 10% of what you actually do. But that 10% is yours to control, own and change as you see fit. It might be discouraging to hear that number at 10% – maybe in your life it is a larger number. And the realization might not exist that you are not in control of everything,…