I was talking to a colleague, and mentioned to him – need this sooner than you think, I feel we’re losing time and really need to move faster.
His reply… “Bal… you can’t have 9 women to produce a baby in 1 month. It’ll take 1 woman, 9 months… to have a baby”.
Wow! – love it.
It’s true, right? – sometimes we try to rush, do things quicker… all because many of us don’t have patience…. don’t we all want things quicker?
We do.. but there’ll be restrictions. There’ll be ways of doing it. Building a house… we could skip the foundations and start building, but will it be sustainable? – will it stay standing up? For how long?
Things do take time. We all need a little bit of patience.
However, if you can do something and then have iterations in place to improve… then that’s the best scenario.
The key thing is – understand the limitations. Learn the restrictions. And work with them. Plan with them. Cater for them.
This brings me nicely to the project we’re working on… when I was asking for something sooner than it could be built. So I learned and took those dependencies with me…. and developed the plan to incorporate them.
I explained this to a startup i’m working with – things take time, don’t rush them. Like baking a cake… bring it out of the oven too earlier, it’s undercooked and your customer won’t be happy. Leave it in too long… then customer won’t be happy but also… customer might have gone to someone else who’s got it out on time…
Yes. It can be tricky to know when to take the cake out of the oven.
Yes. It can be daunting, as you keep opening the oven door… lose the heat… and have to leave it in loner.
Yes. The competition will also be baking a cake, and may have a better idea of when to take it out.
Yes. The customer will be looking at all bakers. Looking for who’s going to bring out the cake first… and is edible.
Yes. You’ll have a lot of things going on whilst baking the cake….
This is why it’s important to know what to deliver… and when.
Maybe a cupcake might be a good idea… as the first offering. Before you starting working on that 3-tier, wedding cake.