Only Way To Fail

S0E4 - A Hot Beautiful Mess (and a Cold Cup of Joe)

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Description

Garret defines what a vacation is, Darin forgets how to take a vacation and spends his entire time eating Italian tomatoes, Tyler doesn’t talk about Scrum for twenty minutes and James waxes on about drinking cold cups of coffee during WWII.  All this plus more while the team recovers from injuries earned by choosing to hit their collective heads against walls as a new form of management. This week’s show is simply a beautiful hot mess.  Welcome to the world of scaling a fast-growing high tech startup…

Show Notes

00:00:00 Pre Show

  • “Jazz Hands” energy transfer
  • Slow start - restarting with guitar?!

    • 00:02:20 - Follow Ups

    • “AWS” 
  • “Rocks and Sand”
  • “Drifting”
  • Secret Projects = Better Company Results
  • “Results Pyramid”
  • “MEeeeePS”?, Lifelines, and STD’s

    • 00:09:34 - The Headlines 

    • Darin avoids squirrels
  • Sales to Onboarding to Interviews to Career Plans
  • Turning burdens into opportunities (Moments of Magic)
  • 7/70/700 = “Prophet-izing” 
  • ….Foaming at the mouth

    • 00:18:45 - Hitting The Wall

    • V1 → V2 → V3
  • Wild West to Organized to ?
  • Tyler still sleep walking
  • A software product company finally starts a product department
  • The cycle of purposely breaking every department (Darin verifies that version 5 comes after version 4)
  • We’re not smart enough for “pre-emptive optimization”
  • Literally or figuratively hitting our heads against the wall (maybe metaphorically)
  • James attempts a quote from Dan Carlin
  • Darin attempts a Dan Carlin impression
  • Darin discovers/invents middle management (Trapezoid of Blank)

    • 00:32:59 - The Coffee

    • Can you imagine cold coffee being as good as or better than hot coffee?
  • “OK” Coffee vs “Cup of Joe”
  • James pump fakes a dynamite drop in

    • 00:34:45 - Tyler Not Talking About Scrum 

    • Is Tyler passionate about Scrum?
  • A tool for accountability, commitment, and individual empowerment
  • Engineers attempt to do “less work”

    • 00:43:05 - Questions and Long Answers?

    • How to do an exceptional vacation (Garret)
  • A different way to vacation (Darin)
  • Getting Things Done
  • The Cheese Drawer...for dogs
  • There are 13 pills…

    • 00:52:10 - End of the Show (The Sign Out)

    • Doing the dishes creates the magic

    00:53:30 - The After Show

    • Scratching itches with the Pomodoro technique
    The Credits
    • Hosts, Garret Richardson, Tyler Samples, Darin Kelkhoff, and James Maes
  • Show Notes by Garret Richardson
  • Proofing and Title by Darin Kelkhoff
  • Editing, Mixing, and Mastering by Brenton Wainscott

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    Only Way To FailBy Garret Richardson, Tyler Samples, Darin Kelkhoff, James Maes