March 11, 2022
Teasers are the sizzle on what is going to come next. Want to get your users excited. Give them a teaser, show them what is coming. If you are excited about it, so will they. If you show it as “the story I’m working on that you assigned”, they won’t be. That’s what teasers do, they make us excited, they create tension and anticipation for what is going to come next. The rest is on you.
March 10, 2022
I’ve been having this happen with a client for the last few deliveries of software and all it’s derivatives… “Works on my machine.” “Works in DEV.” “Looks fine over here.” But it doesn’t, it never did, the problem was always there. Maybe your machine had the right CPU to get past that race condition or maybe that day when you did your test that spike in memory usage wasn’t your youtube video but your app itself. Works on My Machine is a challenge to figure out what went wrong with your code and not be satisfied with a Gremlin lurking
March 7, 2022
We don’t wake up and are just ready to go and do something. For an individual, it can be hard enough to get yourself going but for a team, it becomes multiplied by each individual’s personality, abilities, skills, and experience. Getting your team ready, pumped, on the same page (insert whatever other team you want to use here), I like “gearing up” is a task that you can’t do 5 minutes before the meeting. You need to think of; What do you want them to get out of it? What do you need to get out of it? What do
March 6, 2022
The Urgent Crisis of the Moment has shown up in your inbox in the form of a bug that is going to destroy the company if we don’t get it fixed today. At the moment, there is a surge in pressure to resolve the issue now because it is “hurting” things – maybe not you, but someone else who is dependent upon it. In these moments, there are two things to be done; Alleviating the hurt now. Make sure what you did doesn’t hinder things going forward. Alleviating the hurt now is a pretty straightforward proposition – triage the issue
March 5, 2022
Probably not. No one is ever ready for what is coming their way, if they were, they would be doing it. The usual response to this question is usually – “I guess” or “Okay” or “I think”. Unless you’ve done this task 17 times before, no one can ever say for sure that they are ready with 100% confidence. But that’s not the question we’re asking whether you’re ready to complete the task, what we’re asking is; Are you ready to take the lead and figure out how this works? Are you ready to learn something new? Are you ready
