If everyone is not on the page with what the end goal is, then when it’s time to celebrate the delivery of the end goal not everyone will be happy. If the goal is taking considerably longer than originally thought, it’s important for you to ensure that everyone is still on the same page as to what the end goal is and what the team is working towards. Workloads and priorities shift and it’s easy…
Priorities are going to push your goals down, you might have 7 things you want to accomplish but can only get to 5 on a good week. You can either turf the other 2 or switch up the priorities – that’s the either/or option. The other option is to take a look at your 5 other priorities and think about what you need to do to enable the other 2 to happen, how can you…
Only you know the training your team needs and only you know the path it requires for them to get there. They might be able to see it on the first day and it’s up to you to figure out how to get them there. You can either hold it into the very last day, or you can start from the beginning, map it out, do bit by bit every day, week, or month and…
When you learned how to walk and fell flat on your face the first time did you give up? (Maybe for a bit). The same goes for Sprints and any new development process you are implementing – it’s not success out of the box – it’s a slow burn growth and then mass acceleration once it clicks with your team. If you fail to sprint the first time, start jogging the next (remove tickets), build…
Everyone needs a backlog. If you don’t have a backlog, it doesn’t mean you are done, it means you don’t know what comes next. And that’s the value of a backlog, knowing what comes next, and taking it into account when building new features and planning for the future. When you start building out your first release, you plan for two iterations – the first release and the backlog – one is to deliver the…