Laughing at Myself

As a BA Lead, I now have 4 analysts working for me. One of those is just like me when I was in my twenties. She's fiesty, funny, and does things her own way. All I needed was a template of a Traceability Matrix filled out with a small group of BRDs to help me track down where those BRDs are in the process. She went completely overboard and captured all kinds of additional information that was already documented elsewhere. She didn't know about the other documents, and it would have been great, except we had already done the work she decided to do on her own. If that had happened to anyone else, I would have lightheartedly joked about it, and moved on. But, because I know I would have done exactly the same thing at that age, I just laughed at myself. Was I really that ambitious? I'm sorry to say, YES! And if I get upset, I'm really just upset at how silly I looked when I started doing this kind of work.