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With this approach, you never have time to stop and clear your mind and look at the big picture, you are always stuck in the rut of what you were doing yesterday, which is what you were doing the day before, and on and on.


If I had the luxury of coding all day, I could see this as an issue. More often than not, however, I end up with meetings and whatnot peppered here and there throughout my day, so finding time to think about the larger picture isn't hard. What is hard (for me) is to kick-start myself in the morning, and a little help from my yesterday-self goes a long way.


That's simple to get around - you just schedule in a regular cadence for stepping back.

For example we do a little regroup after lunch, and have a weekly short 20m retrospective on Friday afternoons before stopping for the weekend.




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