Cliff Berg
1 min readApr 7, 2020

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If it works for you, that’s great.

A friend of mine maintained a “relationship Kanban” board on his refrigerator years ago, and I believe it led to his divorce.

I personally think that using an Agile process for a relationship turns the relationship into work. Perhaps it doesn’t for you, because for you it is still fun — a kind of game.

Also, sometimes too much communication is not a good thing. It is sometimes better to listen carefully, and try to be sensitive, and infer. If you listen carefully, you don’t need to be told explicitly in a “retrospective” what it is you do that bothers someone: you can infer it, and then just stop doing it. When someone has to tell you, it establishes as a fact that you are annoying them.

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Cliff Berg
Cliff Berg

Written by Cliff Berg

Author and leadership consultant, IT entrepreneur, physicist — LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliffberg/

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