What would your sprint look like if it was on fire? If there were no roadblocks in your way? If you had less confirmation about what to do and more focus on the actual doing? What if you achieved everything on time or gasp early? What if your Sprint was unleashed to its full potential? It’s not “impossible”, but you do need to ask yourself what is blocking your team, what is holding you back and…
The only person that will hold you to your commitments is you. Everyone else is hoping you get them done, wanting you to get them done, but they can’t make you do them. Your commitments are your accountability and it’s all on you what you decide to do with them. Accountability is a slow-burn, you don’t get a gold star for one commitment, but each time you hit a commitment, you hit that goal, you…
Find the music you need to get that mountain of work done. Play it on repeat for 4 – 5 hours. Lock into it with your headphones. Play it over and over again. Get it done.
I haven’t workshopped in a few years. Haven’t had the opportunity to get together with people in a room, ad-hoc, and workshop a problem. It’s something that gets scheduled now, gets pushed out, and gets delayed. And yet, when there is a problem at hand, it’s the most powerful tool that we have to use. “Let’s get in a room now and discuss” – I miss hearing that.
This guy got it right (and did a great job illustrating it). My favourite test for any team that is struggling – ask yourself what kind of plane, with your current culture and team – you would end up creating. Would it get off the ground? Would it have a beverage cart? Could it land? It’s a fun exercise that gets the point of where you need to work across pretty quickly. The below comic…