Growth doesn’t happen all at once, in one day, or when you go to sleep. It happens when you show up each and every day and chip away at what it is you are trying to succeed at. It happens because you’re not willing to give up and keep going back to the desk, the computer, the notebook and make it happen. But it starts with realizing that you can’t cram it in to a…
You have an idea. You have a direction. You can see the path. But it means nothing if you don’t execute it. If you can’t take the team end to end. If all you are going to do is talk about the promised land, all they are going to do is hear about it and they need much more than that from you. They need the work, they need the structure, the content, the information.…
There is no “best way” to do Standups. I’ve done them at various different companies, all in different ways, some have been great, some not so great, some downright painful. What matters is you don’t give up, you recognize that each team is different and you move forward. Here are some thoughts on the subject via Remotely Prepared.
The hidden list is the one we all have at the back of our heads, in the dark recesses of our minds where we are all trying to work things out. All those nasty bugs and issues that have laid waste to our systems that we don’t store in JIRA and DevOps and instead we let them take up space in our minds until it beats us down because we are so consumed by the…
We did a great recording (almost a month ago) on Remotely Prepared that was focused on the Great Resignation and the impact on parents. Both being parents ourselves, it was a great episode – Why are all the Parents Resigning?