April 8, 2023
I go in spurts of reading where I definitely don’t read as much as I should. But every time I go back to it, no matter how long I have stayed away from it. Every page and chapter I read, my mind becomes overflowing with ideas. It’s the kick to make you think of other ideas and maybe it’s not reading for you, but whatever it is, find it and keep doing it.
April 7, 2023
If you’re delivering your work and leading your team. Don’t worry about the things you miss. Focus on what it does and how your team is doing. You don’t need to have the flashiest presentation to look the best if you aren’t delivering anything behind it. The optics always take care of themselves.
April 6, 2023
Developers should be writing code in the current sprint. QA should be validating the code completed in the last sprint and/or bug fixes found in the current sprint. Product Management should be finalizing/confirming requirements for the upcoming sprint and answering questions for this sprint. Only take on what you can do “-1” – the “-1” being something is always going to go wrong, so cramming in your delivery to your topmost capacity is a surefire way to not hit your upcoming goals. Give yourself time for customer tickets, unplanned meetings and the unknown. The goal of any sprint is to
April 5, 2023
This is another question that a Dev Manager should always be working on in the background in anything they are doing. What matters next? Talking to QA, PM, and other development teams – the goal is to get ahead of what needs are coming at the team next and ensure that it is prioritized and laid out for them in a way that matters and a way that they can be successful. It’s not the team’s job to know the answer to this question, it’s the Dev Manager’s to have it answered for the team to act on.
April 4, 2023
Do you have any? Take it. Better yet if you don’t have it, schedule it into your life. We all need time to breathe, to the game, to read, to draw, to run, to workout, to do whatever it is that gives us a chance to catch our breath and feel better about ourselves and everything around us. The best thing about Free Time is that our minds wander and we take a second look at what we’re doing and what we should be working on more. All because we took a moment to think about it.
