Is your expertise limiting your leadership? I was speaking with Shiri Yardeni this week (go read her posts for fresh perspectives), and at one point we discussed how our career paths led to different approaches to solving problems. In one of Shiri’s posts she explains that she is the one that is asking “the stupid…
Blame the data (it can’t fight back) Is your team working extra hard, but you are still missing milestones? Chances are your data is lying to you.● Data quality: are the different teams/people logging all of the information in a timely manner and in the same way? Does a ticket ‘Completion Time’, for example, mean…
What if we stopped creating new project plans? Story time – years ago, when I still had hair, I walked into a project management office inside a new Intel fabrication plant that was being built. Huge Gantt charts covering the walls, thousands of people involved, over a Billion Dollar cost. But the interesting bit –…
“If I had an hour to solve a problem, I would spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.” — Albert Einstein We will probably need more than an hour, and a lot of coffee, to solve delivery challenges. But Einstein makes a good point, and this is the way…
TL;DR – Resource management in scale-ups is hard, and there’s no magic wand. But piles of good accumulated data, and some standardised solutions and processes can get us most of the way there. Simples (right?) Deep breath, and here we go – In my experience, SaaS scale-ups often struggle with one or more of the…