Every new job you take something with you from the past one – something that might not have been your idea – but a great idea. You take it and you bring it to the new one – “here let’s try this, it worked at my last place and could help us here.” Are you stealing? Unless it’s Intellectual Property or something under an NDA – No. You’re taking an idea, putting a twist on…
At some point in your career, if you want to move from Developer to Architect or Team Lead or Manager or something you are going to need to stand-up in front of people and deliver a worthwhile presentation. It might be a presentation for a new idea or initiative or perhaps a status update on a project you are on or a simple roadmap update. Whichever one it is, you’ll want to, no need to deliver…
It would be great if everything you needed came to you with no strings attached. Even better, what if every agreement or technical discussion went your way. If you want to manage, don’t give to get, demand it… eventually you’ll get it. If you want to lead, you’re going to have to give, something, maybe not today or tomorrow but at some point you are going to have to give something to your team, some…
I don’t typically write about industry related news, although I have a couple in my Trello that are waiting to be written so there could be a few coming. However, yesterday’s announcement of Microsoft buying LinkedIn was something that I had to drop a line on as I heavily use LinkedIn on a daily basis and I practically live on Microsoft software. LinkedIn was the first social media network I ever joined and have never looked…
Who said you had to wait? Take on something else. Volunteer for assignments. Branch out into something you haven’t done before in your spare time and then apply it to work. Watch a course. The daily grind of grunt work holding you back? Than starting grinding daily on how to get rid of the old grunt work and create new work – automate it, break it out, eliminate it, combine it – you’re the expert -…