Pick your sport of choice today, now find your favourite athlete. Now watch them, watch them closely – watch what they do when they are on offense, what they do when they are defense, watch how they react to the plays coming at them, watch how they run the plays with the rest of their team. What do you notice? What do they all have in common across any sport? They don’t do the same thing…
Whether it’s the physical or mental – when we work in clutter – we never achieve our best work. Think of an athlete, a soccer player, trying to pass on a field littered with garbage – they can’t setup a pass because the ball keeps bouncing off of a garbage can and going the wrong way. Now think of your office, books and manuals strewn around the floor and on your desk while you try…
You can’t deploy to Production because you didn’t fill out these forms. You can’t use this library because it goes against our standards. You can’t change that code because we don’t know what impact it will have. Some sample issues you probably hit as a developer that reveal themselves to be the problem. But they aren’t the problem, they are the symptoms. And you won’t always recognize them as the symptoms and not the primary…
Here’s how. When we Start Software – We can’t wait to begin, the project is all new and shiny and full of so many possibilities. Running – Getting up is a pain, we know it’s good for us, we know we should do it, but it’s so hard to get going. In the Middle Software – Things have become muddled, there is so much work to do, we’re not sure how it’s going to get…
That title would have worked better, than my use of “just” in the title. But now I know for next time – still a great article – “Being an Entrepreneur Is Not Just for Young People”. https://everydaypowerblog.com/2017/03/31/being-an-entrepreneur-young-people-2/