Out of Office started as a physical associate with a building. You were either in the building or out of it – hence the auto-response. But now we are here, there, and everywhere and most of the time we are outside of the office. Presence engines use “Not Connected”, “Offline”, “Unavailable” or “Away” to explain when someone cannot take an instant message or call and this is shown by a variety of colors of icons as to when…
A team wins when a team comes together. Those wins will always be subjective to you as the leader of the team – you know the difference between when the team is doing what they should do versus when they do something really great and come together for something entirely special. There is no category A or B when you’re picking Team Wins – every team is different and has a different set of goals…
When you learned how to walk and fell flat on your face the first time did you give up? (Maybe for a bit). The same goes for Sprints and any new development process you are implementing – it’s not success out of the box – it’s a slow burn growth and then mass acceleration once it clicks with your team. If you fail to sprint the first time, start jogging the next (remove tickets), build…
You can’t automate everything – the spark, the creative flow, the magic – that all invariably makes things work is why you are here, in the middle, to make things happen. Automation can only take you so far, but that’s when you take over to make it better. AI is a form of automation, where you take it is the value you, provide.
Everyone needs a backlog. If you don’t have a backlog, it doesn’t mean you are done, it means you don’t know what comes next. And that’s the value of a backlog, knowing what comes next, and taking it into account when building new features and planning for the future. When you start building out your first release, you plan for two iterations – the first release and the backlog – one is to deliver the…