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.
AI will give you steps on how to lead people, but it’s not in there doing the hard work, the in-the-trenches work, the back and forth with the team member who is struggling. It’s not in their thinking about how to motivate them, and looking at how they acted, what their body language was, the tone of their voice, or everything going on in their life. Yes, AI is going to give you suggestions, plans,…