Great point. A few (related) examples come to mind:
Paul Graham’s essay The Top Idea in Your Mind. “I realized recently that what one thinks about in the shower in the morning is more important than I’d thought. I knew it was a good time to have ideas. Now I’d go further: now I’d say it’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.”
Trying to figure out dinner is the worst when I’m already hungry. I still haven’t reached a level of success where I’m satisfied, but I’ve had some success with 1) planning out meals for the next ~2 weeks, that way instead of deciding what to make for dinner, I just pick something off the list, 2) meal prepping, 3) having Meal Squares as a backup.
Grooming meetings vs. (I guess you can call it) asynchronous grooming. In scrum, you have meetings where ~15 people get in a room (*”room”), look at the tasks that need to be done, go through each of them, and try to plan each task out + address any questions about the task. With so many people + a fast pace, things can get a little chaotic, and I find it difficult to add much value contributing. However, we’re trying something new where tickets are assigned to people before the grooming meeting, and developers have a little “homework assignment” to groom their ticket before the grooming meeting. And then during the grooming meeting you present your ticket and give others a chance to comment or ask questions. We’re starting it this week so I’m not sure if it will be more effective, but I have a strong sense that it will be.
Arguments. It’s hard to be productive when things get heated. Probably better to take a breather and come back to it.
Great point. A few (related) examples come to mind:
Paul Graham’s essay The Top Idea in Your Mind. “I realized recently that what one thinks about in the shower in the morning is more important than I’d thought. I knew it was a good time to have ideas. Now I’d go further: now I’d say it’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.”
Trying to figure out dinner is the worst when I’m already hungry. I still haven’t reached a level of success where I’m satisfied, but I’ve had some success with 1) planning out meals for the next ~2 weeks, that way instead of deciding what to make for dinner, I just pick something off the list, 2) meal prepping, 3) having Meal Squares as a backup.
Grooming meetings vs. (I guess you can call it) asynchronous grooming. In scrum, you have meetings where ~15 people get in a room (*”room”), look at the tasks that need to be done, go through each of them, and try to plan each task out + address any questions about the task. With so many people + a fast pace, things can get a little chaotic, and I find it difficult to add much value contributing. However, we’re trying something new where tickets are assigned to people before the grooming meeting, and developers have a little “homework assignment” to groom their ticket before the grooming meeting. And then during the grooming meeting you present your ticket and give others a chance to comment or ask questions. We’re starting it this week so I’m not sure if it will be more effective, but I have a strong sense that it will be.
Arguments. It’s hard to be productive when things get heated. Probably better to take a breather and come back to it.