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by MattGaiser
760 days ago
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> I sometimes find it hard to motivate my team to deliver on time. > Perhaps there is some invisible work that gets in their way, or unexpected blockers waste too much time. Invisible work and unexpected blockers aren't issues of motivation unless you are seeking to get them to work overtime to overcome these blockers. > even if the milestones are aligned by everyone. Everyone agreeing on something doesn't mean that everything is understood or correct. It seems that your estimates are based on everything going right. |
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OP: Is their compensation and performance assessment linked to getting things done to your deadlines?
>> even if the milestones are aligned by everyone.
> Everyone agreeing on something doesn't mean that everything is understood or correct.
It could be the tyranny of the collective "we": "We should ship X by date Y". Is everybody clear on their individual deliverable to make that happen? When you do post-mortems after a deadline is missed, does everybody have a different picture of who was depending on who to deliver what? Was the root-cause of that lack of incentive, lack of buy-in, or your communication?