August 22, 2024
How would you generate revenue for your product? What’s the value it would deliver? How would you pay your employees? How would the company grow? If you have a great idea for an app and the money side ends with “Oh and we’ll sell ads” – you’re missing the most important part of what your product could be – the value it could create. Don’t end a great idea with ads (unless you’re an advertising company).
August 20, 2024
No one sets out to make something “Good Enough.” When asked for our best work we never said “I’ll make it Good Enough.” Work gets to “Good Enough” when we lose energy in what we’re doing – maybe we’re tired, frustrated, or even bored with what we’re doing – so “Good Enough” becomes the yardstick for what we want to deliver. But we’re giving up when we do this, we’re lowering the bar and dropping the value of what we could create – it’s half delivered, half created, half the value. Good enough should never be a goal and when
August 19, 2024
Season Finales set up the next season. Their magic is in taking a break and creating that tension between the end and the new beginning. I was recently reading Patrick Stewart’s Make it So, where he pointed out the Borg cliffhanger that left many of us young Star Trek fans, waiting, patiently, very patiently, running through scenarios as to what would happen when the series began anew. We don’t have season finales in our work where we finish off a great release and then hold off doing anything new so we can think about the next season – what characters
August 18, 2024
The only thing in a title that matters, is what you want to matter. If you need it to say, Senior, that matters to you. When I was a junior, getting out of being called a Junior mattered a lot. I struggled with being called a “Senior” because then everyone thought I had the answers (I didn’t). At my first company, I made up a title so I had one, then realized I had to get a bit more formal when explaining who and what I did to people. Now, I keep it simple, open-ended, I rarely use it, when
August 17, 2024
The evening summary is the look back at what happened during the day. What worked? What didn’t work? What do you need to do differently? Its a 5 – 10 minute reflection on the day on where your priorities lie for tomorrow.
