What is it that you deliver to your customers? Your team? Your CEO? Your clients? Writing code, building test cases, writing requirements – those aren’t what you deliver – they are the output of what you deliver. Here are some ideas of what you can deliver (written in the I format) I deliver scalable, performant solutions. I deliver software that takes a licking, keeps on ticking, and comes back to life when everything around it…
New Year is just around the corner, followed by a bit of a break for everyone as we take time to recharge for the oncoming New Year which who knows what is in store for us then. It’s generally around this time I start thinking about what I accomplished and what I want to start fresh on in the following year. No matter how much baggage, how many mistakes you have made, where you are…
Last Days of employment right now must be a bit problematic. Chances of that team lunch that stretches into the evening aren’t happening. That last chat with your manager where the two of you bare your souls and talk about the future is happening over a zoom call where you wave goodbye to each other (or not at all). Are you even handing in your equipment or shipping it off three weeks later with some…
What matters most to you? Is it how much you earn? What do you do with those earnings? How many pull requests you can handle in a day? How many deployments do you do in a month? How many people are on your team? This list can go on and on forever, but what really matters is knowing what metrics matter to you the most. If you sell software it’s either about users, subscriptions, warranties,…
Apparently, we are currently in the midst of the Great Resignation where people are quitting their jobs in droves because they are fed up, exhausted, burnt out and ready to follow what matters to them most. I realize the word resignation is being used in the context of “resigning” one’s job and not in the context of “with great resignation”. The thing about the Great Resignation is that if all these people are quitting to…