October 21, 2021
I watched this clip twice tonight, only because it is so relatable. Do we know the problem we are trying to solve? Does everyone at the table understand what we are trying to do? Are we all on the same page? We can all nod our heads and go yes, but in that case, who are you helping. Understand the problem, get everyone on the same page, move forward.
October 20, 2021
I don’t worry about the falls. I don’t worry about the slipups. I don’t worry about things that are missed. Because we’ll figure it out, we’ll learn how to get better, we’ll figure out what we did wrong and fix the problem. The recovery is what I look for, if you can bounce back from defeat, from failure, from mistakes – that’s what will always matter. Will you blame your team? Will you beat yourself? Will you lash out at everyone else? Or will you lead the team out, accept the problem and move on?
October 19, 2021
That’s the question you need to be asking yourself as their Dev Manager all the time. What can they do? What can they do that they are not doing? What can they do if I let them have a run at it? What can they do if I took a step back? What can they do if I left the planning up to them? The goal isn’t to overload your team and gives them MORE work to do, the goal is to find out what they can do that they are being held back from doing.
October 18, 2021
I don’t think “anyone” wants to rewrite their code (or someone else’s for that matter). But sometimes you have to because whatever it is that is being asked of you cannot scale in what you have built. That’s the Software game, sometimes you need to rebuild it and start from scratch. Housing and construction are often compared to building software with many of the same phrases being interchangeable. The same applies to a house, if the changes are so significant that the entire house is liable to change or the current foundation cannot support it, you guessed it – time
October 17, 2021
The goal of every sprint should be pretty simple, irrespective of the release, and one that the team can easily get behind… “Did we do what we said we were going to do?” This is a statement that everyone can get behind – whether you’re pushing self-organization, leadership, accountability, responsibility – it’s clear what the beginning and end goal of the sprint is. But often we lose sight of the goal when it’s supposed to be a quick 100/200/400M in front of us (no one sprints an 800M or 1500M). If your team isn’t achieving that one goal, the question
