Less hectic, more impactful, on-time software

A couple of days ago, I brought up the team’s constraint concept: a binary focus between planning and delivery.

This reminded me of the Sailboat Exercise we’ve done at Sodium Halogen. The sailboat exercise has the team brainstorm two categories about how the team is doing: the wind, anything that pushes the team forward, and the anchor(s), anything that slows the team down.

An anchor has two hooks: the left and right. ⚓ When the anchor is thrown off the sailboat, one side of the anchor drags and catches the seabed and slows the vessel down.

When I have AI generate with little direction from me, I feel what gets created is foreign to me or unappealing.

Really, I have little sense of ownership with what was generated.

What AI creates feels very much like a guest room.

I didn’t create the furniture in the guest room, but I also didn’t have any choice in the matter of how the furniture was placed or the decorations that were added. This just doesn’t feel like home.

Our daughter, Mia (6 years old), cried a couple weeks ago about her room being messy.

She said, “I’m bad at cleaning my room!” I thought, “No, you’re not bad at cleaning. This room is too messy for you to know where to start.”

So, that got me motivated. I got toys into a couple of containers and all but 5-6 stuffies into large yard bags. Everything else was obviously trash or dirty clothes.