Repeatedly giving reports explaining that development is off-track is draining…
and career-threatening.
For the third week in a row, you have to report to everyone that development is behind and you will have to delay the release.
Everyone is looking at you in the hot seat as you field questions from the leadership board.
You do your best to explain that there are unforeseen technical challenges, you’re team is understaffed, or that you just lost your best engineer.
But this all feels like excuses
You feel embarrassed
You feel like a failure
This is a scary place to be.
It may not even be your fault.
This situation may feel hopeless but it isn’t.
I promise.
You can begin to take control of how your team operates.
Reduce developer friction and bottlenecks – are your devs running into problems that they can’t solve on their own?
Streamline development planning and execution – are you breaking down the work into manageable chunks? Or, are your development tasks carrying over from sprint to sprint?
Pay down tech debt – quantifying, reporting on, and paying down tech debt shows progress and moves your codebase into a maintainable future. Remove the boat anchor dragging your dev team to the bottom.
REPLY with what is holding your dev team back.
Best,
Andre
P.S. I have a free 5-day email course to help you understand and solve the bottlenecks and friction your developers are experiencing.
I will walk you through step-by-step how to find the biggest problems your devs are facing. This might confirm some things you already know (great) and it will definitely show you new things you didn’t know (amazing).
Let me know if you are interested.