It’s not that you haven’t had time. It’s that you haven’t MADE the time. Put it this way – you don’t write things down for yourself, you know what you are doing, where to do it, and what happens when things go sideways. You’re writing it for the person who comes after you, who needs to figure all that goodness out. You’re writing it for the person on your team that isn’t here, that hasn’t…
What’s for sale, only matters if you are buying. If you aren’t buying, it doesn’t matter what’s for sale. Deciding to buy something because it’s there isn’t going to entice you. Just like your customers won’t be enticed if only one day a year you are going to give them the same thing on a manufactured day at a reduced price. Why buy throughout the year? The goal then is to make them buy throughout…
“I want it all – that’s my Use Case.” That’s a pretty simple use case, but it never gets you anywhere unless you take the steps to make it happen – the mini use cases. I want it all is the use case for – I don’t want to think about the steps I need to take there and would rather dream about having it all. It’s the definition of steps and use cases that…
There are a few ways to figure out the unknown; Research. Join a group that knows more than you. Ask questions. Try different approaches. Learn from failure. Approach the problem from a different angle. Think before doing anything else. And the list goes on but only if you want it to. If the unknown is too dark at 1., most will give up, that’s why only some figure out the unknown problems and are able…
Because when they are done, everything else becomes that much simpler. And if you aren’t sure what the Hard Things are, then do the work to identify what they are and start there because chances are you aren’t doing the hard thing.