When you don’t know what you’re doing, I mean, quite honestly, you have no idea what you’re doing and you’re doing it for the first time – you have no idea what will happen when something goes wrong. “I didn’t realize – EVERYTHING – was using that component I was working on and now everything is down” (Never happens). But the more first times you go through, the more you think on your actions, the…
Ideas don’t grab people all at once. People all of a sudden just don’t get what you’re proposing – despite all the infinite possibilities that you ran through your head and all the great responses you’ve already built up. Traction takes time and oddly enough it doesn’t require you to go as fast as possible. Think of a vehicle going up a hill, do you floor it and go up full speed? Does that even…
Start – anything, something, not big, or small, but start. Repeat – do what you did yesterday, but do it again, don’t modify it, don’t increase it, don’t push yourself further. Keep Doing it – the hardest one – everyone can start Start and Repeat for a bit, but the “Keeping Doing it”, is the hardest part – how long can you keep doing it? What’s the record? Increase – Whatever your “Keep Doing it”…
Careers are exactly like video games. You start off not knowing what to do so you plod along and stuff “happens”. Then you figure out you want to get better at something, perhaps even “specialize”. So you get good at that thing, invest in yourself, get the tools and you become better at what you do. Then like anything, you get to the point where you need to learn the tips and tricks and master…
We don’t often ourselves this question, but it is a valid one. Is it a dumping ground? Is there a structure to it? Do you want to be able to deploy to a new environment with a script? Does each team need a sandbox? Do you want teams to have sandboxes? How long will it live? All these (and many more) are questions you should ask when setting up your repository that go beyond “New…