The Lagging Team

They Delivered. Nobody Saw It.

23:17

A leader says the team hasn't shipped anything in months. The team has been quietly preventing disasters nobody asked them to name. Both are telling the truth.

This is a sidebar — I take one thing from Tuesday's conversation and go all the way into it.

This week: the capability audit. The moment a team falls behind, the meeting becomes an audit of whether the team is good enough. Skills…