The concept of sprints was never anything new. Don’t take on a lot of work, do in small bits so you can show progress and keep your work cycles short. We then bundle it up with a bow by showing to the people who are paying us what it is that we’ve built, get feedback, make changes, and move forward. We’ve been living this life for years – it’s called a ToDo list – and every…
I fall down… a lot. No matter how much experience you have, how many GURU, EXPERT, ROCKSTAR titles you have, you will fall over. You won’t stick the landing every time. And who wants to do that. I eschew the day where I stick the landing perfectly without even trying. Because than I’m no longer falling over, I’m just standing there, afraid to fall over.
Update Meetings are not the easiest. Whether you’re an attendee or a presenter, there is always something missing, it’s never what you want to hear (but perhaps someone else does) and there is always some critical piece of information “missing” that must be discussed today. But the greatest problem with Update Meetings is that they are scheduled, recurring and pre-ordained, so even when we don’t have an update, we have to get into a room…
The truth is you might need to learn something now, and perhaps you needed to learn it yesterday or last week but you didn’t. Maybe it’s a course in your Udemy catalog or a webinar you wanted to attend, signed up for, but never attended. That’s okay because you have Now and Now is better than Never.
We want to come up with concepts that stick. Ideas that make people stop talking in a meeting and go – “whoa, that’s a great idea, and then we could do this, or this or this”. But the true testament to whether an idea is sticky is whether we see that person again, they are still thinking about it. Make your ideas sticky, make them so sticky, people can’t put them down and they keep…