HumanDebt™ in Tech Teams

Earlier this week we published the “Let’s Get Real About Fear” play as promised last week and we hope it helps some of you reading this. We’ve already had teams reach out and give us some amazing feedback on how they used it and how needed it was, but, as ever, we’re more than happy to hear negative feedback as well, so if you try it please get back to us with any of the “what didn’t work at all” brutal truths so we better it for the next team. More importantly, we need to you think about how it makes you feel to be presented with this brutal and cutting of hard topics that will first strike you as wildly unnatural to even bring up at work.

What we were saying is that it is undoubtedly a lot:

and we definitely stand behind that, it would be shamefully dramatic if we ended up having more of that famed debt by pretending this is not happening to us all.

I have had a handful of “sparky” conversations of late when it comes to these wins and the HumanDebt in technology teams. I’m very grateful and appreciative of the luxury of having those. I know not everyone can afford the time or the space for seemingly gratuitous intellectual pursuits with a plate ever so full of tickets.

You know the kind - where you can’t help but still muse and frown inquisitively days after the talk and you realise you’re considering a new perspective, learned something new and are creating new paths inside your mind and in our case, possibly even inside the product since said mind is so directly connected to designing our software.