If you know something today that you didn’t know yesterday – you did a Good Job. If you tried something new, fell on your face and want to get up tomorrow and try again – you are doing a Good Job. If your work is making people, think and question their approach – you are doing a Good Job. If your quiet actions are drowning out the deafening sounds of negativity – you are doing…

Everyone wants to the hero that solved the customer’s problem, fixed the last fifteen bugs, saved the sprint, etc, etc. But whoever they are, they didn’t they do it on their own. Someone took over their other tasks. Someone else cleared their calendar of meetings. Another person on the team took on all their new hire interviews for them. When they worked through lunch, someone grabbed them a coffee later that afternoon. That’s how they…

Initiative is our first step towards leadership. It’s leading the Army of One on all the missions where only we can go (and perhaps only where we want to go). It’s the 10 seconds it takes to step forward and put up our hands to volunteer for something new. Before you lead others, you need to lead yourself. Want your team to start commenting their code? Start commenting your code. Want your team to come…

One of the hardest parts in leading a software release is being late. You tried your best, you rallied the team, you put in the extra effort, but it simply wasn’t enough – for whatever reason, you’re shipping late. Okay, that’s done, that’s known, you know it, everyone on the team knows it, maybe even your dog knows it. Now it’s time to keep repeating. Not because you are trying to be rude or dismissive…

They are unstoppable. A force of nature. The combining of all lions into Voltron. Yes, they are that good. And you know when it happens, you know the moments I’m talking about, I don’t need to say more than that. So how you do make it so the Team Comes Together Every, Single, Time. Now that’s a problem worth solving.