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We all want change. We all want growth. We all want that which will help us get better and develop. And not only do we want it in ourselves, but we want it in our team as well. But if it’s something you truly want to see in your team, then you’re going to have to take the first step to show them what it looks like. You’re going to have to have to be…

When working with a new platform or trying to demo something to a customer there are two elements that will make your software demo sing; Customizing it to their industry, their business, their needs.Showing them data of what can happen over a period of time. And yet, we never want to do this work. A few weeks ago, I was working on a customer demo and wanted to populate the system with some data to…

After all this time. After all these methodologies. After all these books. After all these meetings. We still don’t want to do the simplest of tasks to convey and idea from one person to the other. We still don’t want to write it down. I’m not sure if it’s because we’re rushed, we don’t want to, the methodology told us we didn’t have to or it’s because we no longer know how. Whatever the reason,…

If you’re working with a team and no one is following you then you haven’t done the work necessary to reach them. If you haven’t done the work necessary to reach them, then you are focusing on the wrong things. If you are focusing on the wrong things, your team doesn’t know what to work on next. If your team doesn’t know what to focus on next, they are going to produce “meh” work. If…

Progress Bars in software exist only to keep us entertained while “something” happens. In many cases, they are incorrect and based on the best guess of what might be happening at a particular point in time. They are guesstimates of a calculation that looks at the work to be performed, adds in some variance for connection speed and comes up with a timed estimate for when work will be done. The best project bars keep…