If you haven’t, stop what you are doing and start thinking about this. Your team needs direction, they need purpose, they need to see the bigger picture in what will be for the upcoming year. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the company’s or the team’s goals. Giving your team a purpose gives them something to fall back on whenever they hit a fork or roadblock in what they are doing? I could hack this together…
I have a few, but the best one I am finding is starting my day later. I do enjoy getting up early and getting going into whatever adventure I find myself in. But I’m not starting on the computer, I’m not starting in front of a screen, I’m not starting by doing something laborious which I might only be able to do a few times a week in a row and then get injured or…
Here are some articles on Software Development Leadership this past year that resonated with people this past year. I’m looking forward to writing more in 2022. What Successful Software Architects Do What Makes a Great Technical Lead 5 Metrics of Software Leadership Team Leads vs Software Managers The Software Manager Minimum
You’ll start off not knowing what to do. Then you’ll know a little to be dangerous. Then you’ll realize you didn’t know anything. And then you’ll keep learning because you’ll realize mastery is not something that happens over a short period of time.
Because now you have all this other stuff to deal with that two days ago you didn’t have to do. Now things need putting together, patching and updating. Now your time is being pulled in different directions as everyone wants their piece delivered first but you are only one person. And of course, you have your own list of goods you want to work on. So the question is – where do you start? You…