July 21, 2021
I generally try not to go through the motions of doing things. When I stop caring, I know that’s when I should start moving on. If you’re getting the point of things starting to feel – “Same, Same” – check how much you care and whether you are dialing it in, or giving your best effort possible that shows you care.
July 20, 2021
If everyone is starting from different spots, then you are not starting together, you are starting apart. On a new project, getting the team onto the page is the hardest thing going. If you get it right, if everyone is on the same page, the delivery, the direction is clear as day. If you get it wrong, everyone goes off in their own direction and no amount of standups, scrums, meetings will bring them back. The team needs to know where they are starting from, always.
July 19, 2021
I’ve written on this topic before in a few places (actually quite a few times based on a quick search of this site). But I decided to expand on it a bit for a recent LinkedIn article. If you’re building software, if you want to build great software, you need to start with trust. To take from the article… Software Built on Trust starts with Development but it permeates it’s way through Product Management, Sales, Finance, everywhere the organization depends on that delivery. That’s what you can do when starting with the fundamentals of Software Built on Trust.
July 18, 2021
How many are in your queue? When are you going to start them? Set a date, jump in, and get going. You paid for it, might as well use it and learn something new. Otherwise, give it away to someone who will. (Not sure you can gift courses in this way, but that would be a cool popup kick to getting going this way).
July 17, 2021
Bad News is not as good as good news. It is news nonetheless and not all bad news is truly bad news. Sometimes it’s an update – “we’re late on feature X because people have been away, this sprint we’re going to pour some people on in an attempt to catch up.” It’s bad, not good. But Bad News is never as bad as Ugly News. “We were late on Feature X, we didn’t want to tell you. We let it sit for too long and now throwing more people at it isn’t going to fix the problem, it’s just
