Creating a drumbeat
For team meetings, sprint planning sessions, or any kind of status updates about work, it’s the regularity over time that provides value, not what format the meeting takes. Regular meetings create a drumbeat to guide the work, a predictable rhythm that takes people along.
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Practising dodging spaghetti
This time in the form of team meetings. Everyone wants and needs different things. I don’t think we understand those needs so we go with what seems like it might work for the majority. It doesn’t seem like something I can add value to, so best to just go along with it.
Work better together
Small piece of work (involving mostly pointless changes) that I managed to turn some small part of it into working openly and collaboratively. I wonder what drives the behaviour for closed working. Is it a conveyor belt mentality of only needing to involve the next person along? Is there some deeper worry about appearing to not know everything? Is it just not having experienced a better way?
The double empathy problem
No one understands anyone else, and everything thinks it’s everyone else’s fault.