Change Cadence
I have a number of bigger projects going on around the house, or that I want to get started, and this morning I was thinking about some similar issues in my health--long term projects I need to start engaging with rigor. And so I set a rule in my task management app to surface one health project a month.
And that made me think about the cadence of change. I get to witness the cadence of change a lot lately--Stephen starting school all but upended our routine, led to us buying a second car, and changes to my work and play schedule to ensure I could support my family and do my job.
It made me think a bit about how the cadence with which we introduce change is the pace at which we want to well, change. Hopefully for the better. And similarly, stability is the pace at which we can manage change.
Working in software, I swim in agile methodologies that tout change over plans, and I've long said that we make plans to have something to mediate change from, rather than as a thing to keep. Recently, I've realized that in Scrum, the sprint length is an acknowledgment of the cadence on which a team can pivot.