Don’t change your process right after you kick off the next release. Don’t change your process mid-release. Doing either of the above actions is guaranteed to throw a wrench into your gears and slow your team down when you need them focused on what they are doing and not how they are doing it. Assuming you’re still delivering, gather feedback and if small tweak it in the next sprint, if it’s big, save it for…
There is a huge gap between what we do and what we track – and that is the gap between code and tickets. There are many great tools out there that can you help you manage one or the other, but the gap between them still exists and all comes down to one simple statement. I don’t want my work to be tracked. “I want to be creative” “I don’t want to be a factory”…
When we think of Chaos, we think of everything here, there, everywhere, and all over the place. Such is the place with Chaotic Leadership – we don’t know where we are headed, we barely know where we came from and we aren’t sure what’s next. From day to day, our priorities change leaving us confused, unsure, weak in confidence, worried about what is next, and most importantly frustrated with what we are doing. The good…
I opened up Notion the other day and saw it had a new AI feature to it. So I typed in the name of a story I was going to write to see what it would come up with. It wasn’t half-bad, but it’s not what I was thinking about. It was actually way off and completely generic. I tried it again with a few more story titles and what came out was very generic…
I never put “Focus Time” into my calendar but it’s now such a thing that we see it all the time in everyone’s calendar. I’ve done this a few times myself just to get work done – it feels wrong to schedule something that I used to feel was so completely spontaneous and now the work that I love has to be scheduled to complete. I’m trying to figure out how to reverse the trend…