when you've found your team prematurely converging -- jumping to specifics too early -- what were some contributing factors?
...this is a weird one, but often it seems to happen when the bulk of the team is tied up with something, and a smaller group -- e.g. designer and PM -- are under pressure to "tee up" the next thing
...when the team lacks psychological safety? people just want to get it over with, so they just go with whatever seems like a reasonable deal to make the need to collaborate go away
... "business as usual" makes it impossible to carve out the time to do divergent work and stay there for a bit ... so when people do have a moment, they rush to agree?
...sometimes the cause seems to be the power and anchoring of an early idea. The whole thing started with someone saying "we should____". Instead of backing up and starting over and brainstorming more ideas, ____ because the thing
...dependency wrangling!
"we're trying to figure out if we should hire another person in 2022, therefore we need to know what you will want out of our team now so we can figure out how to help you....."
"we're trying to figure out if we should hire another person in 2022, therefore we need to know what you will want out of our team now so we can figure out how to help you....."
...pretty basic, but they only way to get "approval" for something is to pitch something specific.
That will do it to you pretty quickly.
Many reasons behind this one
That will do it to you pretty quickly.
Many reasons behind this one
...incentives!
"I've been told by my manager that I need a big win to get a promotion, so it is very important that we figure out what that big win will be so that I can tell them..."
"I've been told by my manager that I need a big win to get a promotion, so it is very important that we figure out what that big win will be so that I can tell them..."
...sometimes something has been sitting on a "to do" list for so long, that people "finally get around to it" and take it on face value.
not premature convergence exactly, but they are prematurely converging on an idea that may no longer be relative.
planning inventories
not premature convergence exactly, but they are prematurely converging on an idea that may no longer be relative.
planning inventories
...it goes without saying, but anything to just grinds people's willpower down will have an impact
an onerous annual planning process, for example, will leave people just wanting to make it stop
an onerous annual planning process, for example, will leave people just wanting to make it stop
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