If you have the opportunity to open up an important decision to your team where you want to get their feedback and help in making the decision and you take it – this is a great to align your team. It’s tempting to meet with everyone individually so you only have to deal with any criticism that might come at you in an isolated manner but then you don’t get the benefit of hearing the…
Guess what – users are going to ignore your suggestions for making their software better until they see it in action and realize you were right. The follow-up, they’ll forget the conversation ever took place. And Guess what, if the roles were reversed you probably would have done the same when the same discussion happened. Why? Because it’s not where your mind was at, not where the focus needed to be, not what the priority…
Aka – the Neverending Project. If you’ve been reading what I’ve been putting out over the past few years or engaged in some conversations on topics of software and leadership, I have good news – I finally finished the neverending project. Code Your Way Up is available today for purchase as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). Full details are available here on all the going ons and how to stay in…
In most cases, people are receiving your invite on their phone where they can only see the title and have to click again to view the message contents. So that nice, big paragraph you wrote outlining what needed to be done in the meeting, no one saw it, no one read it. To top it all off, your title was something generic like – “Status Update” – when really it’s more, much more. If you…
We like getting a bus stop when it is packed because then we know the bus hasn’t come yet. Because than we know we are all in this together. Because than we feel like a team and we are all there for each other. The other option when you get to a packed bus stop… Is to complain that the bus is late. Is to gripe that there won’t be enough seats. Is to complain…