February 14, 2019
If it’s not at your place of work, it doesn’t mean you need to leave. It means you need to find your team elsewhere. It means you need to lead the search to find them. It means its up to you to decide how badly you want it. (this is the part that everyone gets stuck on)
February 13, 2019
Playbook – A stock of tactics and methods to achieve an objective. Most commonly used in sports. Should be used more in business, software, everything. If you don’t have a go-to set of plays to win a client, keep them happy, deliver your project, grow your team, challenge them and yes, train yourself – than you and your team have no direction on what they should be doing and how they should be doing it. Playbooks aren’t perfect, they are proposed plans to accomplish something that have been designed outside the heat of the moment so that when things get
February 12, 2019
If you are looking to go to the cloud. I mean really go to the cloud, not simply hosting a bunch of VMs in the cloud. Make a small change today to get there. Start deploying test services in the cloud. Don’t deploy anything that requires a local database. Don’t create local virtual machines to work on projects. Start using GIT or TFS Online (or both). Transition from local development, to 100% online. And if you’re not looking to go the cloud, take your big thing that you want to change in yourself. Training yourself to run a marathon. Building
February 11, 2019
At least once in your life. Prepare for it with warm clothing, get a tent, figure out what you’re going to eat (I recommend maximum prep and limited cook time – simple is good), bring a friend (and plenty of fire wood along for the ride). Don’t check the weather in advance. It will be cold. It might be wet. It will be cold. Possibly very windy. And a sled, make sure you have a sled to drag things around in. You’ll most likely wake-up to a frozen-from-within tent and ice on your sleeping bag. This is good – that
February 8, 2019
If you’re building up that long wait for your community, building that tension, that anticipation, that excitement with teasers, social media posts, behind the scenes views and on and on and on. You better make sure if lives up to the hype. If what you’re building isn’t going to live up to the hype, dial it down, put out the updates, keep them succinct and focussed. “We’re introducing some new features to better align our offering with our other products” Keep it short, simple, answer questions, maybe as it gets closer offer some more specifics. Case in point – for
