It’s easy to Manage, Lead, Coach to the Lowest Common Denominator in your team – the Weak Link. Bringing everyone down a level is easy and takes not effort. But bringing someone up, raising their game while raising the game of the Highest Denominator on your team? That takes patience, skill, trust, consistency, effort, failure, emotion and commitment. It takes everything you have to...
Rustproofing is a big thing in the winter in Canada. It’s a fact of life – many do it – in one for or the other – whether it’s full on rust proofing, a device on your car, weekly “rust proofing” washes or anything else – it’s a thing. This isn’t about which is better or picking one over the other. This is about the reasons and story we...
Shoehorns are designed to help slide your foot into a tight shoe. If interested, you can find out more on the history of Shoehorns here (). Essentially, they help with a snug fit between foot and shoe. Where Shoehorns do not work is getting a size 11 foot into a size 10 shoe. Not happening, not working, not worth the effort. So the question becomes – Are you trying to ShoeHorn a small...
The Delivery Champion is the most important role on any project. They can change the direction of a project at a moment’s notice and keep the momentum going. They can assimilate new requirements from customers into existing features. They can smooth out critical paths to QA and identify ways to speed up testing. They make sure infrastructure is ready before it’s needed. They...
The Morning Crew comes in every morning before everyone else, way before everyone else and they kick the day off. They get the engine humming, they light the fires, they turn on the heating, they put the coffee on. They start doing all these things for the team. Then they start going through last night’s issues with the build, responding to customer tickets, setting up the days events...