February 21, 2020
This is the best way to start off a discussion with your team that in one simple question posits three in their own mind. Where are we now? Where do we want to go? Are we taking the right steps to get there? It’s the kick-off to any discussion on who you want to your team to be and how you want them to do it. The What will come as a result of asking them this question.
February 20, 2020
This never gets easy. Most of us don’t want to write an email on our accomplishments or write a blog listing out our credentials and all that we are up to. Even more, we don’t want to stand-up in a meeting and say to everyone – I did this, I gathered the information, I analyzed it, I built the prototype, I put it all together and I made a product. There are a lot of Is in there and the story sounds quite a bit like the Little Red Hen. You don’t need to be pushing this into people’s faces
February 19, 2020
There is no worst feeling than finding out the app you have loved for years and years, that has become a part of your daily routine, that does exactly what you want has upgraded itself and now does very little of what you want. Where an action used to take one click, it now takes five, and it’s buried so deep you have to search for it every time. Where the app used to infer or suggest what you wanted to do based on your patterns, it now gives you fifty options to choose from. We all know that feeling
February 18, 2020
The person that reaches out, isn’t the one who lost the argument – they are the one that cares about the solution, the problem or issue and understand it’s importance in finishing the project. Being the person who reaches out, isn’t a sign of weakness – it’s a sign of a leader that knows what comes first in delivering a project, isn’t the code or the final product – but the team itself.
February 17, 2020
If you are consistently restarting a project, starting a class over, wiping your IDE to start afresh page of code the problem might be in not understanding what you’re actually trying to deliver. When we don’t know what someone wants at the end, we keep adding stuff until it looks like something no one would want – so we REBOOT – and start again. And then we start doing a whole bunch of work, much better this time, maybe a bit more cleaner, but still not exactly what we intended to build – so we consider REBOOTING one more time.
