It’s been a wild two years of working remote and I think many of us are now looking at our health and wondering what we need to do to either improve it or keep what we are doing going. Remote Health definitely falls into the category of “easier said than done” but here are some tips on to make a better go at things on the latest episode of Remotely Prepared.
Perspective is what separates developers from being good to great. The ones that realize a problem exists, but also realize in the priority list, it’s not the burning fire. The ones that focus on the delivery as a whole, see the bigger picture and don’t start attributing an entire release to one low-level bug or bad cosmetic issue. Attention to detail is great, but when it’s unraveling the 90% that your team is built and…
Compared to others you might not be as faster at getting your work done. You might be a slower coder. Your writing might not be as polished. Your art lines might be harsh where theirs is graceful. Your presentation might lack transition where others didn’t need one. But don’t forget, never forget, that others are comparing their work to yours, wishing it could be more like you.
The last thing anyone wants to hear at a meeting – someone is here solely to say we had the meeting. If this is the case, show them how to create a form, how to track that boxes are being checked and iterated over. Do anything and everything, so that this statement is not uttered in your meeting when you are trying to lead people to work through a problem and deliver. Your people need…
We all have edge cases in our deliveries, as such, we need to account for them. But that is as far as it should go, accounting for them. We don’t need to have all the answers, we just need to have a way to account for them. Each edge case and exception will be different so all we need to do is know what to do when they pop up. You can’t plan for tomorrow,…