Yeah, yeah, I know – there is always a team that wins. But when you lose… Did you get smarter? Did you get better? Did you get stronger? Did you learn what works and what doesn’t? Did you figure out what you would change for next time? Did you build a team? Did that team survive? You can lose and come out better for it.
You don’t need everything, everywhere all at once. You don’t need to go full waterfall. You do need to know what you’re building. Why you’re building it. And who you’re building it for. If you’re not answering those 3 questions and keep trickling out the information as you receive, what you’ll end up with is a trickled-down app that kind of does what you want, for some of the people but they don’t know why…
You don’t pick your team. Your team picks their leader. And maybe that will be you, whether in title or not.
When Leading your team out of the storm, they aren’t looking for Thunder and Lightning. They are looking for calm. They are looking for someone to lead them out of the storm with calm. Lead them that way.
If you’re saying this, if you’re thinking this. You probably are. You might be using product x correctly, but you now know that this is not the way you want to do things so in effect – yes you are doing it wrong. Don’t stop at GO, Don’t collect $200 – figure it out to get back on track. This feeling you have – this is the nascent birth of Technical Debt that many live…