January 31, 2023
Learning all the Languages and Frameworks
You can’t learn them all. You might be able to learn a bunch, but you would never be able to learn all of them and be good at all of them. Specialize in some, don’t master all.
Month: January 2023
January 29, 2023
Embrace the Team Meeting Weird
Meetings can be weird. They are better if they are weird. They are best if they have an element that is unique to your team that no one else has. They set you apart, they make you smile, and laugh when days are tough. Embrace the weird so you always have something to fall back on.
January 28, 2023
The Biggest Remote Challenge
The biggest remote challenge isn’t about what your office setup is, what your meetings look like, the lunchtime pub sessions, how many coffee meetings you have in a day, or what entrance music you are playing. It’s about turning up every day and making sure it’s the best day for everyone on your team. Things go wrong because of Apathy, we let them drag out more when we are remote, when we are in person, we see the effects, we feel them and we know we have to fix them, but in remote, cracks can form, they are small, unnoticeable
January 27, 2023
Unrealistic Sprint Capacities
If you are not taking into account all the other work your team is doing, you are setting an unrealistic expectation of delivery for what your team is working on. If the work they are doing is not accounted for in what they see, then they will feel stressed, then burnt out by all that is on their plate. Sprint Capacities only work when your team is 100% only doing development work, as soon as they start doing other work, Sprint capacities become a much more trickier calculation.
January 26, 2023
The Feeling of Failure
No, you didn’t get the award, it went to someone else. No, you didn’t get the promotion, that went to someone else as well. No, you didn’t get the thing you were after all the work you put into it and now you have to start all over again. It’s easy to feel like a failure, and it’s easy to give in to those feelings but what we need from you now is to put that aside, tweak what you are doing and focus on what’s next. Because what’s next will be better than today, if you let you’re willing