May 13, 2023
I originally titled this “Components of a Great Sprint Retrospective” – but behaviors is the better word. You can have all the processes and systems you want but at the end of the day, it’s the behaviors that the team excuses that make a team’s Sprint Retrospective successful.
May 12, 2023
Whether it’s code, test cases, or requirements. Trust what you have built, and how you have built it, and share it with others. There is nothing to hide from having done an incredible job that you have poured everything into.
May 1, 2023
Everything will go wrong. Despite your best efforts. It, or something like it, will not go your way. The question isn’t about how you are going to react when things go wrong. The question is whether you are going to keep working towards getting that one thing right.
April 29, 2023
There are no more linear paths anymore. Take two people in the same job and guaranteed they did not take the same path to get there. Even if they went to the same school, in the same program, they probably did a different placement, or took a course during the summer or a different set of electives which shaped their path differently. Or perhaps they taught themselves all the magic and conjured up their own direction. Whichever way you go, the path is up to you and shouldn’t be compared to others.
April 27, 2023
You used to be able to walk past a meeting room, stick your foot through the door, poke your head in, and go – “Hey what’s shaking? Can I help out here?” Not so anymore, now you don’t know what calls are going on where, only the ones in your purview, only the ones that affect you. If you’re new to the company, there are big, global, wide-open channels you now need to take the plunge and jump into, not knowing who is going to respond, what they are going to respond with, or if they are a bot for
