February 7, 2022
We want to come up with concepts that stick. Ideas that make people stop talking in a meeting and go – “whoa, that’s a great idea, and then we could do this, or this or this”. But the true testament to whether an idea is sticky is whether we see that person again, they are still thinking about it. Make your ideas sticky, make them so sticky, people can’t put them down and they keep thinking about how to implement them. That’s when you know you have a winner.
January 31, 2022
I came across this article last week on StackOverflow – The Great Resignation as it applies to Software Developers. It’s a pretty good read – unfortunately, it’s nothing new – all of these elements of being a software developer existed before – all the Pandemic has done has made them visible (more so before). Burnout is not new, the term might have even been invented by Software Developers. The section on “Challenges for Managers and Team Leads” was missing something though – GROWTH. Everything mentioned previously in the article speaks to why developers are leaving – freelancing, more money, culture
January 27, 2022
I spent a number of hours on the phone, email, and chat with a company I’ve worked with for years trying to get a simple answer to a basic question. I even had my account representative call me out of the blue and tell me they are here for me if I need any help. I did need help, but they didn’t look at my account to see there was an open case. I updated the case three days in a row (the last day primarily just to ask if anyone was there). After the final online chat that went
January 25, 2022
We are still remote. We are still leading our teams remotely. And as much as we would like to accept that this is how things are, we can keep doing the little things that made us better in the first place and got us over those earlier humps. We just need to work at it. Whether it’s a new team or an existing one, some good Icebreakers to get things started; What was your win last week? What did you get out of this weekend? What is your goal for this week? What can we help you with this week?
January 15, 2022
The beauty of working on performance problems is that they are the simplest to measure – code still does what it was supposed to do before AND goes faster. WIN! The problem is, we always do this after the fact, after the customer reported it, after we deployed it to QA and it blew up. After everything went wrong. We don’t do it before. And that’s where we need to start bundling the work into what we do, from the beginning, from the moment we start, from the first day. It will be a change to our coding and process,
