March 30, 2022
Bumps in the road make us better. Seriously. We learn what to avoid (big monster potholes). How to navigate (dodging big monster potholes). And how to respond when things go wrong (when we hit the big monster potholes). The bumps and lumps we take, the setbacks, the ups, and the downs. They make us better, but only if we let them.
March 21, 2022
It might seem as though you are being mean when you dissuade conversation or try to bring people back to the focus and purpose of the meeting. It’s even odd that this would be interpreted as mean. A team that goes into a meeting, chat on a topic for an hour with no discernible outcome is the definition of a “meeting that could have been an email.” Set the goal for the meeting, if you find your team drifting, bring them back to the reason they are there, why they are on the call, why you are all talking. There
March 19, 2022
I was working on a problem the other day with my Azure tenant. It wasn’t so much a problem as I was trying to find something – going through menus, searching for services (that the vendor no longer offered) – when I was prompted to fill out a survey and rate my service with Azure. At that point in time – zero. The only use my phone home has these days is to be picked up, have someone try and get me to answer a survey as quickly as they can before I hang up. After speaking with someone for
March 13, 2022
I wrote this article a few months ago called the “Software Manager Minimum”. It was a quick take on what Managers need to do as their baseline to get buy as leaders for their team. I remember my first month of being a software manager feeling completely overwhelmed – so much was coming at me – releases, performance reviews, yearly objectives, team cohesion, code issues, etc, etc. At the time, I didn’t know what the base minimum was that I had to do, I didn’t know where to start. This is why I wrote this – The Software Manager Minimum
March 9, 2022
I love doing demos, either attending or giving them. I’ve written so much on them in the past; Plan Your Demos The Day after the Demo The Art of the Demo Demos Gonna Break Software Sales Demo are a Thing Reading those titles, I could still come up with more content to write on demos. This is why I’m always surprised to hear that someone doesn’t want to give a demo. As a developer, the demo is the culmination of your work to show how you took words and made them into something tangible, how you took an idea and
