Life with Tim

Backstory One of my goals for Q3 2019 was to find a good way of collecting notes for 1:1s. Historically I just had a rolling document that had a spat of notes from various meetings. I wanted to get a little more organized. First I was listing off what I should cover and how often. Not as a hard rule but just as a guideline. Second I looked into a medium to share this information with the people I support. I read a blog post from Trello 1 that suggested having a board per connection with various boards. Check that out for more details. Implementation My Template (link in summary) I really liked the idea from Trello, so I did an experiment and created a template 2 . Then I took one of my teams and created a board for each individual. It was pretty well received from the teams. For the repeatable tasks I listed out the things that I thought about during my first part of this goal. 1) performance feedback, 2) company news I've heard, 3) ice breaker questions, and 4) quarterl...

SpaceX, Agile Methods, and Elon Musk's Approach to Innovation Space exploration has been one of humanity’s most exciting frontiers over the past century, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX is at the cutting edge of this journey. With the successful launches of Falcon 1, Falcon 9, and Falcon Heavy, SpaceX has transformed the way we think about rockets. Now, the company is gearing up for the first flight of Starship Mk1, a mission that promises to take us even further into the cosmos. At a recent SpaceX event, Elon Musk took part in a Q&A session where he was asked about the impressive speed at which his team managed to build a spacecraft in just four months—something that would typically take over a year. Musk’s answers, as always, were full of insight, but what stood out to me were the key lessons about agile methods and the importance of speed, feedback loops, and simplifying processes. Elon’s Agile Mantra: "If the schedule is long, it's wrong. If it's tight, it's ...