I’ve been coding for over 20 years – YIKES – where did the years go. No matter what my job title is, I always find myself coding and learning. I’ve recently taken up the #100DaysOfCode challenge to push myself to get back to learning something completely brand new outside of my normal wheelhouse, to push and challenge myself. It’s a challenge. I stop the tutorials more than I thought I would, but I’m enjoying the…
We worry too much about messing things up. When we should be worrying about holding back and not messing it up in the first place. It’s the mess that shows us how best to clean things up and make them better then they were before. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared…
A leader delegates when they cannot handle all the tasks on their own so they engage the team to help. In many cases, the leader also looks to delegate tasks that will help their team grow as they guide them through this process. The key to successful delegation is exactly this, the continued observation, guidance and support of those tasks being performed by your team. A leader abdicates a task when they turf it off…
Tell me when this has worked for everyone involved? If it’s something simple, like the background of the page, sure, figure it out as we go. If it’s something more complex, like the vision of a new project or the upcoming of a release. Nothing is more demoralizing to your team then hearing – “we’ll figure it out as we go” when they are about to jump into a new project. There is a time…
A new feature. A fix to an old bug. An idea for something new that you want to see whether there is some love from the market to keep it going? A direction you never thought of. A new platform of support. What should never be in a preview? Making your application harder to use then it was before. Putting your users through 5 clicks to accomplish a task that used to be done in…