The developers are doing agile. Your testers are doing agile. The Product Team is doing agile. Does your finance, sales, and marketing teams need to do all of their work in agile? Does your entire organization need to follow agile? No, they don’t. The benefit of agile is to deliver units of software that can be viewed and accessed by these teams in a more iterative way so they can see the building of the…
Management and Leadership are two different things, neither can wait to happen. If your team doesn’t know what is happening or who is doing what, they need a manager, they need someone to jump in and help. That person is you, your team is waiting – it doesn’t have to be complicated – a Trello Board, Miro, Notion, Notepad, or anything that helps your team gets organized. Don’t wait.
You can’t learn them all. You might be able to learn a bunch, but you would never be able to learn all of them and be good at all of them. Specialize in some, don’t master all.
Meetings can be weird. They are better if they are weird. They are best if they have an element that is unique to your team that no one else has. They set you apart, they make you smile, and laugh when days are tough. Embrace the weird so you always have something to fall back on.
The biggest remote challenge isn’t about what your office setup is, what your meetings look like, the lunchtime pub sessions, how many coffee meetings you have in a day, or what entrance music you are playing. It’s about turning up every day and making sure it’s the best day for everyone on your team. Things go wrong because of Apathy, we let them drag out more when we are remote, when we are in person,…