December 10, 2021
And Now for Something Completely Different
Perhaps it’s time to try something different, something off the beaten path when nothing else has been working? What else do you have to lose when you’re stuck with nowhere to go?
Month: December 2021
December 9, 2021
Knowing Your Metrics
What matters most to you? Is it how much you earn? What do you do with those earnings? How many pull requests you can handle in a day? How many deployments do you do in a month? How many people are on your team? This list can go on and on forever, but what really matters is knowing what metrics matter to you the most. If you sell software it’s either about users, subscriptions, warranties, monthly sign-ups, etc, etc. Those are the metrics they need to stay in business and keep going. The question is – what metrics do you
December 8, 2021
The Great Comeback
Apparently, we are currently in the midst of the Great Resignation where people are quitting their jobs in droves because they are fed up, exhausted, burnt out and ready to follow what matters to them most. I realize the word resignation is being used in the context of “resigning” one’s job and not in the context of “with great resignation”. The thing about the Great Resignation is that if all these people are quitting to focus on what matters most to them, then in six to twelve to eighteen months time we are in store for some incredible Great Comebacks.
December 6, 2021
Staying Remotely Healthy
It’s been a wild two years of working remote and I think many of us are now looking at our health and wondering what we need to do to either improve it or keep what we are doing going. Remote Health definitely falls into the category of “easier said than done” but here are some tips on to make a better go at things on the latest episode of Remotely Prepared.
December 5, 2021
Mole Hills out of Minutia
Perspective is what separates developers from being good to great. The ones that realize a problem exists, but also realize in the priority list, it’s not the burning fire. The ones that focus on the delivery as a whole, see the bigger picture and don’t start attributing an entire release to one low-level bug or bad cosmetic issue. Attention to detail is great, but when it’s unraveling the 90% that your team is built and is winning on and focusing only on that minutia – we lose the bigger picture – which is all that we have accomplished.