This week was our Midpoint Check-in for our projects. This came with a bit of some fun work over the weekend to enable the last few things per our original time line. It also caused us to take another look at our project plan calendar.
Anxiety or Excitement?
A quick look at this caused a bit of anxiety and excitement all mixed in one. Even though our team has been right on time with our initial project timeline, we found ourselves in a worry state when we stepped into our last stand-up. As we went over our plans for this coming week it was apparent that we have a lot left to do! Our project initially involved a lot of exploration and learning due to trying new technologies. This was a lot of work but left our midpoint check-in right in the middle of the work, but not middle of the product build. This just means that our progress for the next 4 weeks will feel even faster and more exciting as we start enabling features left and right on our web app!
Revisiting Tasks
Due to the amount of work we have left, we decided to reprioritize some of our features to make sure we hit requirements before expanding. This act diminished our anxiety by showing that our requirements are clearly in sight and we will have time to implement our original stretch ideas! Now our anxiety has been replaced with excitement for our final product and finishing the quarter quickly and strong! We have no doubt that this anxiety will return soon, but we will just need to look to utilize this anxiety as a motivator to stay on task and continue working.
