Wait Your Turn
A few years ago, Todd worked with a development team as a Scrum master. The product we were working on was a slick engineering sales tool which was well-liked and well-received by the users. The development team took pride in the quality of their work, the team’s chemistry was great, and everyone genuinely liked working together.
During one sprint retrospective, a mechanical engineer on the team was quiet and looked exhausted, and others noticed that he wasn’t acting like himself. After some prodding by the team, he opened up about what was bothering him:
Every single sprint, you guys race out of the gate, taking on the things that take you a while to develop. I, in contrast, sit for the first few days with hardly anything to ...
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