If you were to go on a 5 hour drive, pull over every 10 minutes, shut your car off, restart it and get back on your journey, the journey would inevitably take you that much longer. The constant, stopping, starting, stopping, restarting will eventually slow you down, frustrate you and make you question what you are doing. (See parents on their first journey with kids who are not used to the constant stopping and starting…
Means nothing. This is the same as saying any of the following. “We need to be marketing.” “We need to be business.” “We need to be coding.” All this statement is, is a clear identification that you don’t know what the topic means, why you feel it and what your team needs. Some better statements… “We need to deliver software faster.” “We need to bring our product managers closer into the fold.” “We need to…
You don’t start with 1, you start with 0 – Sprint 0. Where you iron out the bugs on how things are going to work. Where you put the team together and see them in action for the first time. Where you proof out the foundation and realize what you have and what you are missing. Where you work with the team to get the requirements for the next iteration. Where you figure out what…
The WHAT you code will always be the requirements of what you are working on. The WHY you code will always be about your love for it or desire for a paycheck. The WHEN you code will be determined by when you are delivering and could be up to other people. But the HOW you code – what error handling you employ, what libraries you continually update, what syntax you employ, how you push yourself…
Always Lead to Win Always Play to Win. Always Code to Win. Always Bake to Win. Always Ship to Win. Always Wake up to Win. Always Debate to Win. Always Knit to Win. Always Create to Win. Always Check-In to Win. Always Compile to Win. If your whole purpose is to win, in everything you do, how will you focus on growth? What does you being first to complete your code, leaving the team behind…