The Relay Race

For the last couple of weeks we’ve been drafting and re-drafting our discovery playback deck, straightening up the story we need to tell so that it’s clear. It’s also helping us create shared understanding amongst the team members, given we all joined the team at different times. We completed our fourth (and hopefully final) draft last week, and it received a good reception from our leadership – who also provided some helpful feedback. It feels like we’re better aligned as a team too. It’s lovely to see Frankie talking about the problem and feeling the material in the office. It has required a lot of conversation, and some times needed people to be vulnerable in stating what they don’t know. I’m grateful to the people who did that. I’m feeling quite vulnerable too. Out of everyone on the team, I’ve worked in the NHS for the shortest amount of time. There are facts and people and things and norms I don’t know about, and I’m constantly learning. I’m not autonomous yet, which means I…