The difference between Good and Great is the outcome. Good talent focus on the outcome, the outcome is all that matters, the prize at the end, the bonus, the award, the gift. Great talent focuses on the work to be done knowing the outcome will take care of itself. If the work happens, everything else will fall into place. It’s all in the approach working towards the same outcome.
Your new project, your latest endeavor, the next idea you have. Something will break. Something will not work. Something will blow up in your face (maybe on an important Zoom call). Something will go wrong. It’s life, don’t harp on it if it happens to someone else, don’t let it get you down if it happens to you. Something always goes wrong, move on from it.
Successes build strength and courage to try what is next. There is always success in failure… An idea you tried that didn’t quite pan out, but now you know. The code didn’t work as a product but could be a feature. The process that missed the mark, but exposed the cracks that you never saw before. There is success in everything, if you are willing to look for it.
Software that is stable. Software that delivers on the features that you downloaded it for. Software that is simple and intuitive to use. Do the core features work from release to release? Those are the basics of any software solution that from release to release should always be there. Everything else is an add-on bonus, but the core, the core should never be buggy.
Multiple Teams can have multiple processes and systems for what they do. This isn’t a bad thing – build the process, methodology or system that fits the team for what they are doing. The Agile methodology for software is built around tenets to accomplish goals and not implementation details itself. If you are working with multiple teams with multiple ways of doing things and each team is performing well the question should be are you…