Thoughts at work - partnership
What do you do when your partners don’t partner? What do you do if what you bring to the partnership is misaligned to what you partners want. Ideally you want to bring Level 8 experience and they want a Level 2.
People and groups have their own agendas. Sometimes they seem identical to yours, really close. But they aren’t. The processes and steps that you each want to take to get through that agenda. You try and push for the “right” way, inclusive way, that will bring team and product success.
Your partners are worried about meeting deadlines, and their idea of meeting the deadline is different. Sure you have a launched product, it checks off ideas like it has wheels, a steering wheel, an engine, a windshield and it runs. A “successful” launch is a (link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Tercel text: Toyota Tercel) (3-cylinder low cost car). The customers/users of the launch need and want ultimately a (link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_C-5_Galaxy text: C5 Cargo plane), but first let’s get it running down the road, maybe a better launch would be a (link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_truck text: box truck).
There is a time when you get to ask the question should the effort to join the team/project/program continue. When do you say to your partners,
“I don’t think this relationship is working, we don’t agree on what we want from this adventure, and that is fine. I don’t want to keep fighting this uphill battle, I want to solve the problem and make progress. I don’t want to have best intentions of flexibility be a limiting factor in progress[1].”
To quote a movie,
"Is the juice worth the squeeze? [2]"
- Kelly (Timothy Olyphant), The Girl Next Door
I personally don’t like this idea of being right when it comes to process, because it could be taken as I know best and makes me closed minded. My perspective is I am right on the discovery of what is the solution in a total perspective. What is the purpose, use cases, consumption, interaction, etc of a blog post and a page. What are the motivations and why do they exist, and why should they be shown differently, does that affect how they are implemented? I want to take the time needed to bring the team together and align on the problem and work, collaboratively, towards a solution.
We want to make blog posts for this blog engine, and to add a page idea, we can’t do that, we didn’t build this thing that flexible, we can give you different types of blog posts. But, but, a page is really a different type of blog post, just sticker. ↩︎
I would argue that he uses this quote to argue more freewill, you can do what you want as long as you are willing to take the consequences. But here I think is that the work isn’t worth the zero outcome. ↩︎
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