April 12, 2022
There is no “best way” to do Standups. I’ve done them at various different companies, all in different ways, some have been great, some not so great, some downright painful. What matters is you don’t give up, you recognize that each team is different and you move forward. Here are some thoughts on the subject via Remotely Prepared.
April 9, 2022
The hidden list is the one we all have at the back of our heads, in the dark recesses of our minds where we are all trying to work things out. All those nasty bugs and issues that have laid waste to our systems that we don’t store in JIRA and DevOps and instead we let them take up space in our minds until it beats us down because we are so consumed by the weight of what is and isn’t being tracked. There is a solution to the Hidden List. Write it down, put it in JIRA, put it
April 7, 2022
We did a great recording (almost a month ago) on Remotely Prepared that was focused on the Great Resignation and the impact on parents. Both being parents ourselves, it was a great episode – Why are all the Parents Resigning?
April 3, 2022
Delivering software is all about cycles, the biggest one being you finish one delivery, the next one starts up, we rinse/repeat and do the same dance again. We try to optimize the cycle as much as we can, do requirements early, get code into QA sooner, work on smaller pieces as we go – but at the end of the day it is a cycle that starts over and over again. The challenge for a leader, therefore, becomes, how to make each cycle different, how to ensure it’s fresh, different, and not monotonous, and how to keep your team engaged
April 1, 2022
If you are constantly measuring your results by the final result, you’re going to be disappointed 90% of the time. You won’t always come first. You won’t always win gold. You won’t always get the job. But you can learn from it, you can grow from the work you did to get there and you can turn your focus to a greater goal. But if you’re all focused on is the end result, you’ll never appreciate everything you did in the journey to get there.
