Over time, people will forget what was said. It doesn’t mean it will be ignored, but over time what will stand out, will be our actions. Think about all the great leaders and teams you have worked with and do you remember all the witty quotes they said at meetings or when they were compiling their code? No, you remember that they were there, late into the night compiling their code and that they lead…
The scariest thing I see in any software delivery team is confusion. Running out of licenses? That can be fixed. Not sure what development platform to use? You’ll figure it out. The User Interface looks like garbage? We can buff it out. The app is too slow? We can make it faster. But when the team is confused, when the team doesn’t know what they should be doing, or what direction they should be headed?…
Anchors are big, heavy pieces of metal that you drop out of a boat when you’re close to land so your boat doesn’t drift away. They keep you in one spot. Too often in a release, where we started is not where we end up. What was originally meant to be the release, is no longer the release and what we are shipping is something vastly different than what was originally intended. For this reason,…
Because it’s the only way you’re going to realize how far you can go.
Aka – the Neverending Project. If you’ve been reading what I’ve been putting out over the past few years or engaged in some conversations on topics of software and leadership, I have good news – I finally finished the neverending project. Code Your Way Up is available today for purchase as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). Full details are available here on all the going ons and how to stay in…