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We like things to come fast, done in a day, home for dinner, sitting by the fire, reading our book. Job well done. Some tasks can follow this pattern, some tasks can be done in a day, leadership is not one of those tasks and there is no grand event that dictates that you are now a leader. Managers get up in front of their team and tell them where they are going to go, Leaders…

So, it’s been one year since I started Rambli and I am writing this post from where it started – Seattle. By the numbers… 81 Posts 2 SlideShare Presentations 1 altMBA Program Not bad for one year… now it’s time to double it. Measure Your Mark.

The last and final piece of any software estimation is knowing what you don’t know. Let’s review… Experience gives you the background to know what type of problem you are trying to solve, what should I be asking, what pieces of history and context do I bring to this estimate. Knowledge is the frame on what do I know about this domain, is this my area of expertise and what do I have that I…

In any job there are those tasks that just need to get done and they are not the most challenging of jobs either.  And there is no way around it.  This is the Grunt work and for everyone it is different, it could be fixing bugs, estimating your tasks, doing a code review, etc, etc, etc. But it has to get done, it is part of our jobs.  Every job has it’s own set of…