October 26, 2021
If you want to have good results from a meeting, you need to put the good preparation into one to make it a success. And this goes for everyone in the meeting – presenter, attendees, listeners – if any of those people don’t come prepared for the meeting – there is no point in them attending. What’s the first ingredient that goes into a good meeting? People.
October 22, 2021
Teams don’t just work and they don’t just magically come together. It takes work and time. As soon as I see an email that ends with “let’s do this as a team” – I know there is something wrong, that the bridge isn’t there and this is a half-hearted attempt to deal with the problem. Building bridges between teams is not easy but if you’re writing your team announcements or motivation quotes in an email. You’re not even close to starting to build that bridge.
October 20, 2021
I don’t worry about the falls. I don’t worry about the slipups. I don’t worry about things that are missed. Because we’ll figure it out, we’ll learn how to get better, we’ll figure out what we did wrong and fix the problem. The recovery is what I look for, if you can bounce back from defeat, from failure, from mistakes – that’s what will always matter. Will you blame your team? Will you beat yourself? Will you lash out at everyone else? Or will you lead the team out, accept the problem and move on?
October 19, 2021
That’s the question you need to be asking yourself as their Dev Manager all the time. What can they do? What can they do that they are not doing? What can they do if I let them have a run at it? What can they do if I took a step back? What can they do if I left the planning up to them? The goal isn’t to overload your team and gives them MORE work to do, the goal is to find out what they can do that they are being held back from doing.
October 18, 2021
I don’t think “anyone” wants to rewrite their code (or someone else’s for that matter). But sometimes you have to because whatever it is that is being asked of you cannot scale in what you have built. That’s the Software game, sometimes you need to rebuild it and start from scratch. Housing and construction are often compared to building software with many of the same phrases being interchangeable. The same applies to a house, if the changes are so significant that the entire house is liable to change or the current foundation cannot support it, you guessed it – time
