This is another question that a Dev Manager should always be working on in the background in anything they are doing. What matters next? Talking to QA, PM, and other development teams – the goal is to get ahead of what needs are coming at the team next and ensure that it is prioritized and laid out for them in a way that matters and a way that they can be successful. It’s not the…
Do you have any? Take it. Better yet if you don’t have it, schedule it into your life. We all need time to breathe, to the game, to read, to draw, to run, to workout, to do whatever it is that gives us a chance to catch our breath and feel better about ourselves and everything around us. The best thing about Free Time is that our minds wander and we take a second look…
Do you have a Plan to Grow? To improve? To get better? To close the gaps that are keeping you up at night? If not, take 30 minutes, (yes that’s all it will take) and come up with one. If you need to put your tomato timer on it to do it, then do it. And if you are still trying to find your 30 minutes because it’s “too much” – ask yourself that same…
If you’re waiting to see how you are doing based on the results of your next review, you’ve already lost. You know how you are doing. You know what you need to work on. You know what your strengths are. Performance Reviews are a confirmation of what you should already know. So go fix what you know you need to work on.
You gather a foundation when you learn by reading, watching, assimilating, asking questions, and comprehending – that is foundational learning. But real learning? Real understanding? You learn by doing. If you’re not doing, you’re not learning.