Note to Self…
Sometimes, as a blogger, we blog for our own sake. I think that’s almost always true for me, for what it’s worth. I’m not trying to monetize this blog. I’m not part of the Medium Partner program to get paid for writing. While I do write to build a reputation for being a guy with agile ideas, mostly I write in hopes my ideas can help other people.
But today is one of those days that are very self-reflective. So pardon me while I write almost exclusively for myself here.
As I sit here thinking about other lists I’ve made and ideas that have been kicking around in my head, I can’t help but hear the cheesy quote of the Twisted Sister music video. The scene is a classroom and the teacher picks on the kid who loves rock n roll and asks, “What do you want to do with your life!?”
(Side note: the guy that stands up in the classroom in the video and says loudly “I WANNA ROCK!” was in my English 220 class at Boston University)
It’s a healthy behavior to self-reflect. So hopefully you do something similar. These are the things on my mind today on this “123123” last day of the year.
What do I want to do with my life? At least in 2024…
- Apply to speak at conferences like the Agile Alliance one in Dallas this year.
- Attend the AgileCoachCamp.de in June in Germany! Which is directly related to this next goal.
- Start planning some of the big trips I’ve dreamed of making in Europe and elsewhere.
- Finish my AgileTeamMaturity.com assessment model and get some real world feedback.
- Hire the team to build out the related app that conducts the assessment (take your team’s maturity assessment, decide what to work to improve, then test again and see progress over time)
- Finish the book MakeTeamsAwesome.com designed to help teams with the agile mindset and modern topics that make an agile team mature. This will be a reference book to explain practical knowledge like an “agile coach in a box”
- Start my PracticalAgilist.com fractional agile coach consulting business for companies, teams, and teams-of-teams that want to focus on specific areas of improvement at a reduced cost without having to hire a full-time coach or sign long-term contracts.
- Finish some long-lingering DIY projects around the house, be the best husband, and best parent I can be to our 17 year old.
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- If you are a coach or scrum master, reach out, say hi. Make sure we are connected (see links below) because of the next two things.
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I hope your 2024 is everything you wish it to be! Happy New Year!
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Hi, I’m Brian Link, an Enterprise Agile Coach who loves his job helping people. I call myself and my company the “Practical Agilist” because I pride myself on helping others distill down the practices and frameworks of the agile universe into easy to understand and simple common sense. I offer fractional agile coaching services to help teams improve affordably. See more at FractionalAgileCoach.com
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