January 14, 2019
If you don’t have this person on your team, then your team has no direction. When you are not on point – you have no goal, no focus, notdirection, no end state. You have work being done for the say of work being done. Get someone to keep you on point (or even better, become that person).
January 11, 2019
If your project isn’t working, it’s possible that’s not because of the project, but because of the people. No one likes to hear that, after all the “best” people are already on the project, why would we change the people? But are they the right people? Do they know how to call garbage on client requests? Do they understand what development needs to get work done? Do they know what kind of test cases they need to build for solutions being built? Are they willing to step aside to make the project a success? Hint: If they are the right
January 10, 2019
Building software for a community is a very tricky thing to do. Primarily because it involves much more than building a product. When you are building for a community you want to be able to engage with them, take feedback on what is and isn’t working and what needs to be there in the next release. Your role takes on more of a “here is our product” to a “here is a product, how can I help you set it up, if you have problems call me, what are your thoughts” kind of implementation. Building for a Community is hard
January 9, 2019
For what? Why? Where? Does it matter? It does? Why? What’s coming out of it? Where do you go from here? Work the problem, come up with the solution, move on – that’s the game you need to be playing.
January 8, 2019
When someone asks you how was your day, you immediately run the fastest recursive algorithm in the history of brain power to pick out all the bright spots from your day. You rank them all and then come back with an answer of something akin to “okay”, “meh”, “decent”, “workable”, etc, etc. Maybe in comparison to the once a year thing that your friends were doing or the illogical comparison’s to someone InstaStory that’s how your day was. But was it? Maybe the real problem is not the comparison but that you didn’t set yourself up to have a great
