Primarily, I helped them come up and present to their board a new sprint process that would allow them to execute fourteen, three-week sprints for the year.
...and spent the afternoon helping them put together a plan for how they were going to invest their software engineering hours for the rest of the quarter. I love talking and problem-solving and drawing on whiteboards and feel blessed that I've found companies that invite me in to help solve their biggest problems.
Not only did they work together to define very specific, company-wide success metrics for the quarter, they made signs and hung them around the office so everyone knows the goal. (Quartly Goals: Sell 125k in new business. Launch 90% of the rev in the que. Keep 101% of revenue from churning.) Awesome to see a small, software company have explosive growth while tracking to profitability!
...and was excited to see they'd hung up signs all over the office memorializing the simple 3 metrics they'd come up with as a company to track their success over the next quarter.
Started off the month with some consulting work! Nobody likes digging into another person's big complicated spreadsheet like me! Trying to understand what numbers say is more fun to me than Netflix. (PS - sorry about my hobo-desk. I eventually gussy it up with some handsome contact-paper).
On Wednesday I rode my bike to Union Square to have my first meeting with LeagueApps as a prospective client. (The meeting went great and I ended up helping them with Product & Sales growth for the next 2 years!)
