September 27, 2018
Whatever fits into your wheelhouse but volunteer. Whether you’re a marketer giving your time to a small ad agency. Or a coder giving your time to a non-profit. Or an engineer coaching a youth basketball team. Or a (INSERT PROFESSION HERE) doing (SOMETHING GREAT HERE). You might go in thinking you’re going to get nothing out of it – but you will, it simply depends on what you are willing to put into it that will be the differentiator.
September 25, 2018
Or make a dent it in as Steven Jobs so famously said. Or implement a change that affects millions and billions overnight. What you DO need to focus on is what you need to do to change your world and make an impact on the people around you. Focus on that delivery, focus on that change. Once that change happens, the rest will fall into place as blocks always do.
September 24, 2018
If you’re not sure where this phrase originated from here is a brief synopsis. And if you didn’t read the above link you know the phrase from any movie that featured a newspaper where information so cataclysmic that it required a full-stop on what was being done. Everyone… EVERYONE… stopped what they were doing and looked up to see who had yelled it out and what new information justified it. But here we are, in a 24 hours news cycle where the presses never stop for anyone – we never stop or fix what we are doing because there is
September 21, 2018
Then I guess the team is too busy to design it? Too busy to code it? Too busy to test it? Too busy to fix it? Too busy to help? If you’re not willing to take the first step towards resolving your problem, writing it down, then how do you expect to get others on board to help you? Aside: Needing help from others on figuring out your problem is a great idea to figure out what you need to do. But you still need to do the hard work and write it down, not the busy work.
September 10, 2018
Said by every developer ever. “It can’t be a bug if I never had the requirements.” “It can’t be a bug if it never existed in the first place.” “It can’t be a bug because no one else is complaining about it” All valid answers. As well as opportunities to invent a new work item type that removes the stress from finding a feature at the last minute and lightens the mental state of the delivery team. Hot Feature Cold Pack Roadkill Red Alert Pick one or create your own and at the end of release – do a round-up
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