February 8, 2022
The truth is you might need to learn something now, and perhaps you needed to learn it yesterday or last week but you didn’t. Maybe it’s a course in your Udemy catalog or a webinar you wanted to attend, signed up for, but never attended. That’s okay because you have Now and Now is better than Never.
February 5, 2022
We’re starting a new series on Remotely Prepared called “Remote Connections” – the idea is to find ways to connect with your team in a remote way. It’s been a few years since we have all gone remote and now more than ever, we need to make sure we are establishing these touchpoints for career and personal growth. Our first episode, no surprise, focused on One On Ones, and yielded some great content.
February 2, 2022
If you are accountable for your actions, whether right or wrong, succeed or fail, but mostly when you are wrong and you fail – you will change the culture of your team overnight. No longer will they think they need to hide and toil away mercilessly in the background trying to get something fixed before someone notices. In meetings, they will speak up about something being broken and not let it go down the line. Accountability stamps out apathy before it can even take root. The beauty is, it all starts with one person, and then everyone sees the impact
January 31, 2022
I came across this article last week on StackOverflow – The Great Resignation as it applies to Software Developers. It’s a pretty good read – unfortunately, it’s nothing new – all of these elements of being a software developer existed before – all the Pandemic has done has made them visible (more so before). Burnout is not new, the term might have even been invented by Software Developers. The section on “Challenges for Managers and Team Leads” was missing something though – GROWTH. Everything mentioned previously in the article speaks to why developers are leaving – freelancing, more money, culture
January 24, 2022
I wrote two articles last year on Growing your Software Team, the first was the more obvious (add bodies), the second was not so clear (grow by skills, career, succession). Grow By Body Grow By Skill At some point, you need to do both. Growing by Body isn’t hard, you interview, you ask questions, you select a candidate, you make an offer and you hire. Growing by Skill requires mentorship, guidance, coaching, planning, training, One-On-Ones, discussions, feedback (not validation), and patience. We default to Growing by Body because it’s easier when we should be defaulting to Growing By Skill, not
