October 20, 2022
Do you understand what your role on the team is? What do you contribute? Where do you create value? What do you do that helps your team directly and those you interact with? What do you make better? How many times have you asked yourselves these questions? Your role isn’t rooted in your title, it’s in what you do and contribute.
October 19, 2022
Everything can’t be a Priority 1, that’s like saying, every day is Christmas, it can’t be, it’s impossible. Instead, you have to make the hard choices of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5… And that’s where the triaging of priority falls apart either because we can’t choose what the 1 is and want to label everything a 1. Knowing whether you’ve chosen the wrong priority is a pretty simple exercise – if it changes every day, it’s wrong.
October 18, 2022
Success comes from what the team can achieve. But the team is powered by individuals, who might be ON a team, but not part of it. The goal then becomes to make every individual part of the team, beyond simply being ON the team. Once they realize they are part of something bigger, the path to their own personal growth becomes aligned with what the team wants and can potentially achieve.
October 17, 2022
Everyone does, and we can hold it against them or we can remind them. But if they keep forgetting then it might be something else that you’re missing and so are they.
October 16, 2022
Writing new code is a great release for whatever is ailing you. It’s that moment when we go from having nothing to creating something that absolutely knocks our socks off. It can be 2 or it can 100 lines, but at the end of the day it is code and if it runs, you created something.
