In case you are confused about what you are working on or the direction you are headed in there are two questions you should always be asking of yourself and your team. What is the problem we are trying to solve? How does the solution benefit the customer? If you are always answering those questions with the customers interests in your mind, you are on the right path. Any missteps you make in between will…
I’ve become enamoured with this question after having it been asked of me. Here’s the depressing part, I know the place per se, but can’t get there all the time (I can get there 15% out of the year, but that might even be a lot). So where do I go from here? Well now that’s the fun part as I try to piece that together and find that magical place. But one piece of…
The question you always need to ask at any point in a project – Is who is doing what? Who is on that feature? Who is on that user story? Who is working on that bug? What are they moving onto next? It’s the toughest question to ask because immediately the person doing the work thinks – “how do you not know what I’m doing?” But they do, and they will because perhaps a few…
We want everything to be working and going smoothly. But no project has ever been like that. There will always be ups and downs, different states, where we are behind or ahead. Some days you will have bright red roadblocks while other days are smooth sailing. Whatever state you’re in, it won’t always be Green (this is good), what is even better, is being up front with everyone about it. It’s only when we’re honest…
On one of our most recent episodes of Remotely Prepared we spoke with Bekah Hawrot Weigel on the importance of creating Communities and all she has done with her developer community VirtualCoffeeIO. Bekah has a great story to share on all that she has worked through during the Pandemic, going remote, being there for her family and on top of all of that – building an incredible community loved and used by Developers all over…