January 26, 2021
Are you taking any this year? Can you take any? If you can’t, when are you finding the time to develop, grow and improve not only yourself and your business? The days of waiting for your manager to come to you with proposals for training are gone. The days of planning your own training schedule are now here and waiting for you to decide what to do. If you’re not going to take the time to reflect on your own growth that who will?
January 20, 2021
As a Developer, I have always hated saying these words, it always feels a bit like a copout – like I didn’t do my job, left something out, forgot a scenario, ignored something, etc, etc. I don’t mind the jokes that come with it (and they do come, in waves and torrents). When this happens my first thoughts are; Don’t say it. Ask for logs. Get a screenshot. Work the problem. It’s that last one that is so important that separates the issue from being lobbed over the fence for someone else to deal with or for picking it up
January 19, 2021
If they mean something, use them. If they are saying the same thing, over and over again and never getting anywhere and have become utterly meaningless. Let them go and find something new.
January 15, 2021
Your code. Your team. How you lead. What project you are working on. What you are learning. Everything, it all breaks at some point. Good. That’s the point, if it doesn’t break, you’re not learning, you’re going through tutorials and motions where everything is isolated and perfect. It’s messy, all of it, it’s supposed to be messy, that’s the point. Break it, make a mess, fix it and grow.
January 14, 2021
Without getting into a whole “thing” on experts, there is a common fallacy that when your team isn’t performing, you need more of them to get back on track. On a sorely undermanned project, of course, you might need more senior resources to jump in and get the ball rolling again. But in most cases, your projects are not at this point and what need isn’t an Expert, what you need is for your existing team to start learning and becoming an Expert. Better to have people on your team working to become experts than dropping one into the fold
