I do not have enough time or I need to do so much?

Introduction

Below is a translation of Chapter 6 of the classic book “Planning Extreme Programming” by Kent Beck and Martin Fowler .

Content

When you are overwhelmed and you do not have enough time, you should not think about how little time you have, think about how much you have to do. You cannot create more time, but you can do less.

Once our team was saved from hanging over a project of oblivion. With the first release it became quite obvious that we will not keep within the scheduled time. One day we had a “stand-up rally” where we discussed the problem. We wandered around, answering the question "What prevents us from approaching the release of a product?"

"I do not have enough time"
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"I do not have enough time"

"I do not have enough time"

No one had enough time. We did not find an obvious answer and everyone went home.

During dinner at a Korean restaurant ( Korean cuisine is good for the brain ). Suddenly, the cosmic rays entered into interaction with part of the kimchi and we saw the light and heeded the real problem.

The next morning we gathered everyone: “Repeat after me: I have so much to do.”

That is how it is.

"I need to do so much."

"I need to do so much."

"I need to do so much."

We repeated this, penetrating the whole grace of such a position.

“I need to do so much. What is your opinion?"

The fact is that when you do not have enough time, then you have no luck everywhere. You can not make more time. Do not have enough time - there is a hopeless situation, a dead end. And hopelessness leads to uncontrollability, stress, hopelessness, mistakes, burnout, and refusals.

The need to do so much - a controlled, familiar situation. When you need to do so much, you can:

• prioritize and not do some things

• Reduce the size of some of the things you are working on.

• Ask someone else to do some things.

Having to do so much inspires hope. We may not like the situation, but at least we know what needs to be done.