Last week, Ryan Latta offered a fascinating metric on LinkedIn: the number of times a leader taps a developer on the shoulder for “something real quick.” That kind of interruption makes it impossible for the team to achieve a regular cycle time. Worse, it creates aging. So more leaders want to know “why is everything
If you have to make a decision, how fast can you make it? There is certainly a range of decision times. Some decisions require almost immediate decisions. Others can take a while. But no decision can take what seems like forever. In effect, waiting to make a decision is no decision. No decision is still
My podcast this week is from the Continual Planning book. (I use a frame to embed the podcast into this post. Some RSS readers and some email clients do not show that. If you see nothing after “The Podcast,” please click through to this post. Or, look for “Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman” in
Do you feel pressure to do more and more? I do. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone. But sometimes, that “more and more” creates pressure on the team and the people who interact with that team. When anyone has a capacity reduction, everyone feels even more pressure. But pressure is not particularly useful. Exhorting people
My podcast this week is from the Continual Planning book. Enjoy! I did make a mistake this week. Since I was trying to stay within my minute timebox, I missed adding the most important line. Here it is: Aging is the leading indicator and root cause of all that overplanning. (Sigh.) (I use a frame
Some of you are already preparing for the salary and performance review discussions at the end of the year. (Or the beginning of next year.) Good for you, for preparing this early. You have a chance of doing a great job. However, there are many problems with performance reviews and salary discussions at any time.
My podcast this week is from the Continual Planning book. Enjoy! (I use a frame to embed the podcast into this post. Some RSS readers and some email clients do not show that. If you see nothing after “The Podcast,” please click through to this post. Or, look for “Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman”
How often does your team conduct a retrospective? If you’re like most of my clients, not often enough. When I ask why the team doesn’t retrospect at least once every couple of weeks, these teams tell me many reasons: They don’t finish “enough” work often enough. (If you’re part of an “agile” team and you
This week’s podcast is from the Continual Planning book. Enjoy! I use a frame to embed the podcast into this post. Some RSS readers and some email clients do not show that. If you see nothing after “The Podcast,” please click through to this post. Or, look for “Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman” in
My podcast this week is from the Continual Planning book. Enjoy! Note: If you read this in an RSS reader, you might not see the frame below with the actual podcast. If so, please click through to this post or subscribe to the podcast itself (Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman). Thanks. The Podcast: The