New Ideas can happen overnight. Building New Ideas rarely do. Building New Ideas is the hard part because things will go wrong and they are prone to frustration. Building New Ideas is where we often give up because we don’t get it the first time and have to go back to the drawing board, many, many times. But when stuck to, Building New Ideas is where growth begins.
If you know where you are headed is not where you want to go, but you’re “committed” to getting there because you’ve already invested in the journey, it’s not going to get better when you get there. That’s a lot but simply – “if you are having trouble with the way you are doing things and you keep doing things that way, you’re headed for the exact same problems you have today” (I don’t know…
Good Architects find the bad in a design that you might be in love with and perfectly aligns to your comfort design. They look at what you’ve done and show you where it could fail and point out gaps you might have missed. They are the second set of eyes that raises the game of your code and ensures you are learning new things all along the way. In short, they ensure quality is delivered,…
Done, is not always the checkbox on the project plan. Sometimes, Done can be the first step in having an idea of what to do next and creating the spark for the discussion that will ensue. Done can be so much more than what we treat it as today.
This is a question to ask your team – What kind of team are we? Are we the kind of team that follows the rules? Do we listen to each other? Do we tell each other what to do or coach each other? Do we push the envelope? Do we lead by example? It could be all of this, none of this, some of it, or more, but the important part is to know what…