My son who proof reads my blog, read the
piece yesterday and asked me in a polite but concerned tone, “Are you going to write
these long philosophical pieces every day?” Time to change the topic then. With the rest of my list for week one rendered obsolete, I was trying to think up topics on the drive
to work this morning and getting nowhere. With the topics I mean.
Serendipity struck while I was sitting through an hour long 20-minute meeting this afternoon. The topic for the day presented itself.
One of the changes
we have agreed to implement starting tomorrow is to have five minute SCRUM meetings every morning for project status updates. Only three items will be allowed on
the agenda.
What did we achieve yesterday?
What will we demo by end of day?
What do we need to complete the promised deliverable on time.
We have been trying the SCRUM approach on one project and the speed of
delivery has been miraculous. I am curious to see how this approach scales across
multiple teams working on multiple projects.
Another thing we are going to try is stand-up meetings. Might ease the guilt a little when my wife opens her phone calls with, “Are you in the middle of some work? Or are
you in a meeting?”
4 comments:
We tried this third thing - a 7 pm deadline, no one stays back after 7 unless you have a call. Worked well!
Most meetings get prolonged because people are afraid of calling out bullshit from their bosses. One thing you can do is give everyone the right to call out 'Time!' when they feel that someone is beating around the bush. This needs authenticity because there'll be some cynics who would want to use the opportunity to revert to their college-time backbencher habits! But if done with authenticity and by balancing courage with consideration, it is an excellent tool to keep everyone honest and to give voice to those who end up always being listeners.
The other training people need is to be rigorous with their language. Most people go into sub-tracks while describing an issue or suggesting a solution. They try to anticipate all possible objections and say things like, 'You might think...but' or 'I'm not saying this.....I'm saying ....'. Being rigorous with language save time and potential misunderstandings.
Sir, it works in our team and I have seen the team since last 6-7 months..it makes a difference..we too have the same points with added one as blockers.
If the intent is improve prose, as you had mentioned early on, it may be fun to an event that evokes deep emotion for you : Humor, anger, love, nostalgia. I have found that the deep emotional connect with a piece puts one in the flow of things. Just saying :/
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