If you want to reap the benefits in four months, you can’t start the week before, the month before, two months, or three months before. They’ve done the math, they know the equation, and there are no shortcuts, it’s a simple matter of working backward and starting from the date you want to deliver on. That’s the first part. The second part is doing the little bits, the daily tasks, each day, that will make…
If you don’t get your work done in a week… we can’t add the eighth or ninth day… all we can do is try again the next week, starting again on Sunday or Monday (in my case, the week always begins anew on a Thursday). The same with Sprints – once you set the duration – that’s what you’re working within in – if you do or don’t get it done – that’s part of…
I know bunts and singles are good. I know they make sense from a numbers perspective. But whenever I played baseball, I always had to swing for the fences at least once a game. Sometimes you just have to evaluate the right pitch, speed, and velocity, give it your all – and swing for the fences.
Every team has them. The “Ism” – the CodeIsm, the EnterpriseIsm, the SupportIsm. They are the ideas, the culture, the vernacular that makes your team, your team and separates it from everyone else. They are the rallying cry for getting things done and delivering. They are a good thing to have as long as they project the good of your team and not the “that’s the way we have always done it”, “that’s how it…
What I admire most about video games, is their resiliency to consistency deliver updates. Maybe I’ve been lucky but when I look at the games I’ve played, and how they are updated I can’t help but think that this is where the time was spent first – on the Updates. The team figured out the problem they hoped they would have forever. Pushing out changes and ensuring they don’t impact their customers from using their…