I’m off on leave for two weeks on Tuesday. I’ve done all the usual preparations, eaten most of my frogs and sent the usual “who’s doing what” email around to various people in the office so that everyone’s clear about my areas of responsibility whilst I’m off.

Probably the biggest responsibility I’ve got is for product development. We’ve got a decent sized team and we’ve got a new starter joining that team whilst I’m off. They’re starting a new, very exciting project and we’ve got to deliver, fast. It’s more important that this team delivers right now than anything else. In previous lives I would have been picking up the phone several times during my break to a temporary project manager I’d have had to put in place and there’s every chance that I’d have had to dish out a fair few complaints to the team for under-performance on my return.

Not this time. We run scrum. I’ve asked one of the team to be scrum master whilst I’m away. I know she’ll do a good job and the team are so motivated and producing such a volume of good quality work, there is very little that can get in their way.

I guess I’ll have to find something else to worry about whilst I’m off…