IME it's sadly common for an organisation to have a Problem, for everyone to acknowledge there is a Problem, for someone to even come up with a roadmap to solve the Problem...and yet nothing will change because there is some ineffable disconnect between knowing and doing.
Really it seems to come down something like "well, if we're going to go to all the effort to change something, we better do it right. If you can't prove the change you're going to make is going to solve this issue perfectly forever it's better to leave it as it is right now. rather than waste all that effort"
or, "good idea, let's add a weekly meeting to monitor fixing this issue"
> or, "good idea, let's add a weekly meeting to monitor fixing this issue"
At one company, we started having daily "show and tell" meetings at the end of every day in addition to daily morning standups. I said during a retro that these were causing extra stress for the team, and felt unnecessary.
The team lead responded to that by making them 15 minutes longer, because he claimed the stress was just coming from team members not having enough time for their demos.
He let me change my hours so I now work 6:30am to noon. The rest of the day I play video games, watch tv, walk my dog, go grocery shopping, etc. I just make sure to show up to the the 15 - 30 minute "standups" throughout the afternoon.
It might not be an ideal schedule for everyone but I have almost 4 uninterrupted hours in the morning and I naturally wake up early so it works for me.
"haha, yeah it's ridiculous, right?"
IME it's sadly common for an organisation to have a Problem, for everyone to acknowledge there is a Problem, for someone to even come up with a roadmap to solve the Problem...and yet nothing will change because there is some ineffable disconnect between knowing and doing.
Really it seems to come down something like "well, if we're going to go to all the effort to change something, we better do it right. If you can't prove the change you're going to make is going to solve this issue perfectly forever it's better to leave it as it is right now. rather than waste all that effort"
or, "good idea, let's add a weekly meeting to monitor fixing this issue"