Productivity
fromMountaingoatsoftware
1 hour agoWhy Smart Teams Overcommit And How Leaders Make It Worse
Leaders should avoid pressuring teams into overcommitting, as teams often do this themselves due to their inherent optimism.
I got a degree from Douglas College in programming and business management. I understood the business side more and was better at that than at being a coder.
Well, our guest today argues that the best way is by moving to a more project-driven model of work, up and down the organization from the corporate level to individual teams. He wants us to both ruthlessly prioritize as well as stay fluid so that we're identifying strategic goals, assembling teams to go after them, evaluating as we go, and then either continuing, shifting, or disbanding based on our outcomes.
Your AI pilot showed 94% accuracy improvements. The LLM is yielding solid results. You're getting defunded anyway. The reason? You solved a problem AI can solve. Your budget-holder needed you to solve theirs. Companies launch AI pilots that produce results, then stall at scale. The team's diagnosis: "They don't get it." What's really going on: These projects never earned budget-holder buy-in.