There is a kick in your step today as you start the first day of the New Year. Similar to the first day of a New Sprint where there is a kick to everything you are doing as you start fresh on the work you are doing. It doesn’t matter if the sprint has rolled over, if it’s continuing what you did before, or if it’s a bug being reported – you can’t change the…
There are one of two things happening today. You are resting on your laurels, basking in the glory that everything you set out to do you got done. You are scrambling to get everything done in one day thinking it will make a difference and you can check that you got it all done. Neither is right, and neither is wrong, but no matter your goals, one or maybe both of those are happening. When…
New Plans are wrought from failed plans. They are built from the ashes of things that have gone wrong with the original plan with the hope to start again. Everyone loves a new plan when it finally comes into effect. But what hurts them, what holds them back is the admission that they were not needed until it was simply too late to put them into effect.
The learning moments happen when something goes wrong, but they aren’t about the “whole” thing. The release might be late, but there was a moment when a developer jumped in and wrote some missing test cases for QA that helped them out. Or when a QA resource went in and grabbed all the extra bugs ready to be invalidated and ran through them. Or when someone started commenting on their code better. Within everything, there…
Do you listen to feedback? (Not hear it). Do you take input from others and go out and try what they ask? Do you get mad when someone tells you you were not doing it the way you’ve practiced? Do you get frustrated when someone points out what you’ve done wrong? Do you argue about the feedback you are being given instead of processing it? The answers to these questions will tell you if you…