I’m pretty proud of what we’ve done with Remotely Prepared over the last two years. We’ve spoken with more people than I ever thought we would and we’ve spun it into 4 amazing seasons of content around working remotely and getting the most out of your team. For the last few months, we’ve been talking about taking it in a different direction and now we are at that point. Starting with our latest episode, we’ll…
Software teams get called out for being costly more often than not. Salaries never seem to shrink. They need high-running machines to write code on. They need additional software and tools to show where they are, how they are progressing, and when they might be able to deliver code to end-users. They need build machines and extra devices to make things work. They have questions (oh the questions, how cruel to ask questions). And this…
First, you show up – on time, with an open mind, ready to take everything in. Then you listen – patiently, attentively, without judgment or interruption. You act on what you have heard, putting it into practice, seeing what works and what doesn’t, iterating along the way. And when those three have been done, you will have learned something. Sometimes we forget what goes into the first three to get to learning, master one, forget…
I think we are all feeling like this these days – taxed, weighted down – trying to do our best, not sure what to start on next because who knows what we are going to have to be working through next. If you’ve never had an Out of Memory exception, it occurs when your code has taken up all the memory on a server and there is nothing left to give back. I haven’t had…
There is a difference. All-Around means you are here, there, and everywhere. It looks like you are participating, but really you are just “there”. All-In means you are not here, there, or everywhere. It means you are where you need to be, where your team needs to be and you’re ready to perform your role to help your team succeed. We think “All-Around” is All-In because we’re doing lots of “stuff” when actually what we’re…