May 27, 2021
It doesn’t matter what your role on a project is, what you were brought in to do or what you were hired for. What matters is what you are doing, how you are contributing to the team and how you are pushing the project forward. Three years on one project is a long time. What you didn’t think your role was going to change? You didn’t think you were going to grow?
May 26, 2021
Some considerations to think of when looking for a mentor; They don’t have to be in your field of study. They do need to call you out when you have done things wrong and push you to fix them. They need to keep you on point. They need to have time to work with you. They are not there to do the work. They need to have a plan to help you grow. If they can’t help you they will redirect you to who can. They won’t give up on you. It’s not a complicated list, but that’s the list.
May 24, 2021
Many articles are starting to pop up now regarding how the workplace of 2022 and beyond will look different. More people will work remote with no more afterthoughts tied to that option. “Do you really think you can lead the team remotely?” “How much work will you get done?” “How will we check in with you?” “What if need to have a meeting and we’re not all in the same room?” These questions (and many more have melted away). What traditionally would have taken many years to try and to do via proof of concepts, small office trials, localized implementations,
May 11, 2021
There are lots of “days” for lots of things now – pizza, brothers, books, parties, plants, etc, etc. Some you might agree with, others you don’t know and might not even understand. But someone did when they created it, they had a reason for it and every time it comes around, they celebrate it with reckless love and abandon. You don’t need a widely distributed calendar to mark your own day for your own thing, you can simply do it and know that it’s your day. Whose going to stop you?
May 9, 2021
We get into a meeting, great ideas come out of it and if we are busy, we throw them onto the backlog. This isn’t bad, this is how it should work – you can’t do everything, all the time. Also, it’s a great way to give things time to congeal in people’s heads, let them see what you are building now so they can decide if they reall need this later. Do we truly need AI? Scraping an email will do. But, but… there is always this small part of me that is sad when we trim the backlog and
