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I like continuous integration. A lot. I started being an aficionado of continuous integration back in my senior year of university . It was my very first (and last) team project in my college career. There were three of us. The project manager waited until the night before the project was due to get us all together (argh #1). I had completed much of my code several weeks before (argh #2: who can remember what they’d written several weeks ago?). We wrote code madly for hours, and then tried to make it work, starting about 9pm. It didn’t work. We stayed up all night (argh #3).

I missed one presentation in my last post. At Oredev, I had an opportunity to speak with the PMI Sweden folks (at least, the southern Sweden folks). I talked about Agile Program Management, and discussed my current thinking about agile program management.

So often we assume the worst and expect delivery and arrival times to be late. We're so convinced that we'll be disappointed that we fail to give proper credit when a promise is kept and a delivery goes as planned. Give a little bit of credit and allow yourself to be pleasantly surprised!

By understanding the type of loss that you, or someone on your team has experienced, you enable yourself to process it, grow, and move forward. Sometimes even the gain of one thing means the loss of another. Losses and gains are ultimately changes, which aren't always easy to deal with.