July 18, 2021
How many are in your queue? When are you going to start them? Set a date, jump in, and get going. You paid for it, might as well use it and learn something new. Otherwise, give it away to someone who will. (Not sure you can gift courses in this way, but that would be a cool popup kick to getting going this way).
July 16, 2021
We all have one. It’s our internal guide for when we start a new team, a new project, a new job, a new something. It’s the four to fourteen steps on what we do when starting up. If you’re a leader it might look like this; Meet Team Figure out what I do. Meet Manager. Figure out what I need to do. Where is code? Schedule One-On-Ones And the list goes on and on, however long it is for you and the pieces and how many they number are all up to you. We all have manuals, some are more
July 15, 2021
You can’t be everything to everyone. It’s impossible. I realized this a number of years ago as a developer when new frameworks started popping up every day. I couldn’t learn them all and be good at all of them. But I could be good at some of them. Real good. Awesome good. Find your niche, own it, make it your own. Don’t be everything to everyone.
July 13, 2021
On any project I lead, I encourage Devs to log bugs. Log them all day, every day. That’s the job. You find an issue, you log it. You break something, you log it. No one has an infallible memory and if you are never logging bugs, all you are doing is making yourself look like a slow developer on that one task or story you are desperately trying to complete. Show them what you are really doing, all the edge cases you are seeing, all the extra things you are thinking of as you build this new system. Build your
July 6, 2021
How scary is this? You’re mid-way through a project and/or delivery and you have an epiphany to pivot, change, alter your course of action. Worst, before you justify it to others you have to justify it to yourself. Even worst, you can see the different paths laid out in front of you and what they can represent – the good, the bad, the possible. It’s enough to make your gut lurch forward and leave you frozen in a panicked state. But what may come from it, might blow you away. Or it might fall flat. Here’s the problem though, you
