November 25, 2020
Means something went wrong. Whatever it was that you were planning didn’t work out. The plan you had set in motion, broke and now you need to find a new plan. Bad News is happening all around us. What we do with it is still up to us.
November 24, 2020
Not when it runs. Not when it does what’s in the requirements. Not when it doesn’t break the unit tests. Not when QA passes it. But when the client says – “that’s cool.” Then you know it’s complete, everything else up until that point is simply a beta.
November 23, 2020
I did an interview a while back on How to move up the Career Ladder on the Mentoring Developers Podcast. This is a great podcast for developers looking to learn and figure out their career trajectory, where they are headed and what they can to do get there. Had a really great time on the show. As a bonus, we recorded the video for the episode as well, available here.
November 22, 2020
Being a Leader is a tricky endeavour, there are many, many, many books, blogs and articles on the topic. There are more approaches than coding languages. (Not verified by evidence but probably true). But there’s one thing we all forget to do as a Leader from time to time and that is to remember that you are only human and if you want your team to be open, honest and forthright with you, you need to do the same thing. It’s not an easy thing (easier to say then do). With teams being remote, there is lots of talk about
November 21, 2020
A break out is something you do when you need to get out of a situation you’re in that is not desirable. In sports, it’s generally attributed to taking possession and regrouping your team into an attack. In business, it might be about taking a larger group and breaking it into smaller groups that would be more effective at delivering a task. Whichever definition you want to use, the application is changing your status quo from what it was to something different. This isn’t easy for many to do, who wants to change what we have, when we are so
