Accountability

Here's where it stands: the date slipped, nobody died, and the worst move now is silence.

First, stop calling it a failure in front of the team. The date moved, so we replan from the new one, backward.

Standup rules apply even to bad weeks. Today's three: what actually shipped before the slip, what is the single next thing, and…

Deflated? The launch slipped, it didn't die. Get up. Was there a reason or an excuse?

First, own it out loud. Monday morning I would stand up and say the slip is on me, not them.

Two weeks in, then the fade, every time? That's not a flaw, that's a pattern, and patterns are fixable.

Two weeks is not failure, it is your current record, and records exist to be broken.