Teams grow. Products get more complicated. Process encroaches. Security protocols enter the fray. You’re past Minimum Viable Product. Now it’s about growth, security, and maintaining delivery timelines and schedules. But never leave the small business mindset that you had and that got you there – think small, work with what you have, deliver big.
When you have to start paying extra because the implementation path you have chosen is no longer supported. That is the sign you’ve been waiting for to deal with the issue at hand. That is the big sign in the sky saying – “Stop, Fix this, Move On” All that money that could go towards new hires, tools and equipment is somehow being “found” to hold onto what doesn’t work and costs extra to maintain…
I write this knowing I am out there shopping right now. I wish this wasn’t true but it invariably is. Today is the last day, you waited until the last possible moment. And now you’re frazzled and have to hustle to get it done. Calm down, breathe, go get it, there are lots of hours in the day.
Every Math test I would take in high school ended that way – “Pencils Down” – as though I had created some masterful creation that was perfect and could no longer get any better. It was at this moment, when all hands were up that we’d look around at other people’s papers and either smile in agreement or become immediately dejected at having received the wrong answer. When leaving jobs, this is the new “Pencils…
No one is at your level, have you looked in the mirror? Everyone is at different levels, you were at someone else’s level once, and someone else was at your level once. There is always something to learn, always somewhere to grow. Don’t mistake what someone doesn’t know as being inferior, recognize it for them needing to be taught, coached and mentored to be at your level.