October 3, 2019
Because if you’re not, someone else will and when they do, they will no longer be your team, they will now be on this other person’s team. Org charts do not define who belongs to what team, they only define who you report to. We all know whose team everyone belongs to.
September 25, 2019
It’s taken for granted that you should be on time. I mean, someone went to the work of asking you to come to a meeting. They booked the room. They put together the agenda. They put everything in place to ensure that the time the team shares is spent usefully and not a complete waste of what everyone is trying to do. So why not be on time for that? If you decide that’s not enough for you and you still want to show up late and not on time, here’s the message you’re sending – “I don’t care enough
September 19, 2019
No one ever asks you to onboard a new team when there is nothing to do. It’s not a thing. There is always pressure. Always work. Always demand. Always the need for it to have shipped yesterday. So now that you know what you’re up against, build a plan that onboards your new team taking into consideration all those emotions that they are feeling. Reassure them that they will get there, listen to their feedback, count to ten, whatever it takes for you to stay calm and get things working with them. If they are super green, they will have
September 18, 2019
I finished a big project I’ve been working on for a few years. Yup it took that long, between multiple starts and stops, being worried about how it’d turn out and not sure if it’d ever get done, I finished. Here’s how I did; I let the voice in my head that kept saying it was garbage to keep talking and sat down at the keyboard and pounded out intervals and intervals of work. I broke the day into intervals, what was finished was finished, what wasn’t would move onto the next interval. I got help from people that knew
September 17, 2019
You can put your best work out there for months and months and have it on shuffle all the while it is wrong. It’s never written in stone. You can always write an update. Always deploy a patch. Always, update the policy. Always admit that you’re wrong and try again. (but it’s the last one that kills us, because that’s the one that forces us to admit we got it wrong and move forward). Easier said, than done.
