I have an issue with repositories, source control, and JIRA projects that are scattered to the heavens. It’s easy for people to hide. They can say they are working on something, but not be and it’s because they are hidden in a project, somewhere, that no one knows about. Reduce the hiding spots, increase the visibility.
Because they force you to do something you’re not (at least not all of us are accustomed to). Focus and get to the finish line. When you are running, that’s the goal, the finish line – whether the road is bad, it’s raining, there are lots of people – the goal is the same: get to the finish line. And the only way to do that is to focus and move your feet. That focus…
Your software needs a “Check Engine” light – it’s getting harder to maintain, it doesn’t work as well as it used to, or it’s hard to understand. Better yet, have an engine light for your team. Does everyone know how our software works and what we do? Do we have a scalable group, and are they growing? It should flash red in your eyes, and like your car make you pause. The problem is we…
You can’t do two things at once, but we’re getting close. I can put Claude to work on a problem while I switch to something else. I’m still not doing two things at once, but it now looks like. But if I have to spend time reviewing and integrating what Claude wrote on a greater scale later on, have I done two things at once? Whether it’s minimal time or not? Are we doing two…
Everything is about consistency and keeping the schedule. If you can do that, you’re aces. The problem is adhering to the schedule – it flips and flops as external circumstances outside of your control invade your precious time as you seek to complete all that is in front of you. So then the question becomes, do you have too much in your schedule to get things done, or are you underestimating the time to get…