Let me tell you a little story bout a dope idea
It came one night while I was in despair.
And I was heading up a development team
A Project Manager, we know what that means.

Everything I planned & everything I did
It never worked out, the way I thought it would.
I couldn’t work out what was wrong with me
And I couldn’t work out why my team were empty.

Every day we tried, every day we hustled
The scope would creep & we were still in a bustle.
We built to spec, we built to deliver
We still never met the end needs of the user.

On top of this, my team were whacked
Late nights, early starts, damn were were stacked.
And what does it mean when you burn people out
It means you’re headed towards an energy drought.

I lay there awake, tryn’a understand
Tryn’a figure out why I’d failed my plan.
And I suddenly I realised, I know what to do
I’ll ask my team to navigate us through.

I started to ask, I started to learn
Agile, scrum & charts that burn
I started to learn that humans will prevail
When they know they’re in a space that they can fail.

My message is simple, people are great
Given the space & time to self-navigate.
So if you want to start a humanistic approach
Stop managing your people & start to coach.

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