I wrote this article on Medium a while back called the “Software Manager Minimum”. At the time, I was writing about the bare minimum you need to be doing as a manager and leader on a software team in order to keep your team moving forward. In this I boiled it down to three questions you should always be asking yourself on a daily basis; What’s the Pulse of the team? How are we doing? …
The process, the plan, the path you had laid out for today, that’s been working for the past few months, that after a constant back and forth you got everyone on board, for now, needs to change. It doesn’t mean the process didn’t work, it doesn’t mean the changes were bad. It means you’ve now outgrown them and now you need something else to keep managing yourself and your growth. If processes stayed the same…
They aren’t supposed to, that’s the idea of preparation, you do it solo. You choose the task. You choose the priority. You make the changes. You choose what’s next. You decide where you need to go. The only person that notices is and will be you.
It’s easy to do the things that don’t challenge you, don’t push you, don’t force you to rethink what you are doing, and give you that boost of what you are good at. It’s much harder to realize you’re not good at everything, that one thing you are struggling with, you are struggling with for a reason because it’s not easy. That “thing” you working on, you might be the only one working on it…
Event planners have it tough. They put everything they can into making something go off smoothly, perfectly, without a hitch and along the way something always goes wrong or off the rails. The secret is that they never let anyone know that something has gone wrong, they never show it on their face, they roll with it, they recover and they move on. There is a degree of experience worked in there as well as…