the capital running out
The capital for the next pahse of the amrket deployment is nearly gone and we need to keep the project goign for another six months
18 May 20264
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Board wants an AI strategy by Q3. I have no idea what problem we are solving.
My board has decided we need an AI strategy. I have been handed it as a project. The honest truth is nobody has articulated what problem we are actually trying to solve — the…
11 May 20266
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One exceptional developer is making everyone else redundant
I have a developer who is genuinely exceptional. She solves in two hours what takes others two days. Everyone knows it, including her. The problem is the rest of the team has…
11 May 20263
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18 hours a week in meetings — for a 6-person engineering team
I have counted it. Between standups, sprint planning, refinement, retrospectives, design reviews, cross-team syncs and one-to-ones, my team spends 18 hours a week in meetings. We…
11 May 20263
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Our backlog is run by whoever shouts loudest
Sprint planning is a ritual we do but do not really follow. The CTO walks in on Monday, points at three things that caught his attention over the weekend, and that becomes the…
11 May 20264
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My senior team has mentally checked out
Half my senior team has stopped challenging anything. They deliver what is asked, hit their targets, and say nothing in meetings. Eighteen months ago these were the people who…
11 May 20265
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Team doing too much
There is so much stuff on my teams plate at the moment, we feel really overwhelmed but not sure anything is actually happening.
10 May 202614