When you are accountable for your work – whether early, later, or on time – it breeds value. When you own the late deliverable, try to make up for it, people notice. When you finish early, take on more, people notice. When you finish on time, people notice. Being accountable for your work, not blaming it on the weather, other people, etc, will always breed value in not just your work, but yourself.
I like Free Lunch. I don’t read too much into it – pizza is pizza, sandwiches are sandwiches, burgers are burgers. It’s a fun time to hang out and chat with people. From a manager’s point of view, it takes nothing to create this environment – $100 – $150 – depending on the size of your team, if you look at what they earned you in OT this week, you’re still saving $4k. Sometimes you…
It’s not an easy time to be leading teams these days. If you’re running a software team, here are some things I’d be considering; Yes, AI is here, let’s focus on what we have to do and how we can leverage it. Let’s focus on the value we create in our work. Working on legacy code? Great, there is a need for that, but our plan will be to move forward and remove it. Are…
Tell me what you’re trying to do. That’s the question you have to be able to answer. What are you trying to do? If you can’t answer it, you’re not sure what you’re trying to do; that’s okay, break it down into smaller parts until you do know what you’re trying to do. No need trying to do something you don’t know or understand – keep breaking it down until you do know, and then…
If we stopped designing houses, the results would be interesting. We design for a reason, we take that moment to breathe and think about a problem, stare out a window in silence, and contemplate what is happening. Any problem that has been solved well took this time to figure out the design. Yes, it’s not always fast, but it should always be good.