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Achieving Greatness while Avoiding Burnout: My Experience as an Agile Coach
- Individuals, teams, and organizations who reach their goals have one trait in common: consistency.
- Individuals often create their own doom, working excessively to gain a promotion, release a new product, or shift to a new business result which usually ends with them feeling burnt out.
- The Agile Principle of Simplicity, the art of maximizing the amount of work not done, and a principle from queuing theory, Little’s Law can help achieve success.
- The story of the tortoise and the hare highlights the importance of being consistent and sustainable rather than just working fast.
- Consistency helps in setting a challenging pace which can be indefinitely sustained.
- In order to find that consistent pace, we can figure out what needs to be done specifically, look at our energy, and establish a baseline for what the team can deliver.
- Little's Law, a mathematical theory helps teams in reducing the number of things in progress at one time to complete each item faster.
- Applying consistency helps in realistically reaching our goals. It eliminates guesswork, allows us to manage expectations, and have enough energy to tackle the next goal.
- It does not mean there won’t be long days or challenges, but one will have the knowledge about what is actually sustainable to truly achieve success.
- Consistency truly is the secret to success. The tortoise wins.
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