{"id":672,"date":"2006-11-28T23:45:32-05:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T04:45:32+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/there-may-be-no-i-in-team-but-there-is-a-me\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T23:46:26-05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T04:46:26+00:00","slug":"theres-no-team-in-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/theres-no-team-in-i\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s no team in&nbsp;I"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Although I didn&#8217;t really know it at the time, I&#8217;ve long been a proponent of <cite class=\"term\">agile<\/cite> methods at work.  Which is why it&#8217;s ironic that, now we&#8217;ve started actually <em>doing<\/em> agile development, my role in the company (<a title=\"The Peter Principle\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Principle\">thank you Dr. Laurence J. Peter<\/a>) basically prevents me from having anything to do with it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>To fill that gap, I&#8217;ve been reading agile blogs, and listening to (and occasionally transcribing or summarizing) agile podcasts.  Although agile is very much about working with a team, I&#8217;m trying to use its team-based strategies to manage my own work&#8230; although without a defined customer, a prioritized task backlog looks an awful lot like a to-do list.  I go to standups and medium-level meetings about the challenges people face trying to implement agile in the company.  And I&#8217;ve taken to reading books like <cite class=\"title\">Influence Without Authority<\/cite>, since I have none of either.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>I think the correct term is <cite class=\"term\">glutton for punishment<\/cite>.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although I didn&#8217;t really know it at the time, I&#8217;ve long been a proponent of agile methods at work. Which is why it&#8217;s ironic that, now we&#8217;ve started actually doing agile development, my role in the company (thank you Dr. Laurence J. Peter) basically prevents me from having anything to do with it. To fill&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}