March 2, 2024
Nothing else, it… just… gets… amazing. As long as you stick with it. If you don’t stick with it, it will never get there, but if you, if you can stick with it, you’ll be amazed at where it can go and how you can get there. But you have to stick with it.
February 23, 2024
Can we put everything into this fix to get it right and get it out there? Have you tried putting everything into one fix? I remember when 100 MB was considered too big for a patch and now I’m downloading 20 GB updates. Focus your fixes on the problems they are meant to solve – no one ever complained about a fix that addressed the one issue it was meant to.
February 22, 2024
In video games, there are many side-quests to getting to your primary quest. They might give you XP (experience) to help in your primary quest (i.e., unit testing, additional coding, etc, etc). We sometimes discard them because – “Bah, when am I going to use this” – but then when we complete the primary quest, we begin the work to go back and clean up our side quests and think – “huh, this would have helped out a lot if I had done it sooner.” Don’t forget the side-quests, they take longer, but they are designed for growth.
February 21, 2024
They want to know how they are doing. They want to know what they are doing wrong. They want to know where they need to get better. They want to know what to fix. So they crave it, in any form, they want it, all the time – feedback, not validation, not comments, but feedback – how do I get better? Tell me.
February 19, 2024
If all around you is stress, chances are you aren’t shipping much. Chances are you’re behind, you’re not on time and nothing is helping you move forward. It’s not for lack of effort, but rather because you’re focused on leading only one thing – stress. But, you can’t lead stress. You can manage stress – you can mitigate it, break it down, isolate its touch points, figure out what is causing it, and adjust from there. But you can’t lead it, no one starts off leading stress. This is where a manager helps the leader manage the stress to that
