Regardless of your profession, a promotion can be the most exciting and scariest set of emotions you feel all at once. One day you’re a developer responsible for your genius level of code, the next day you’re responsible for THE team and dealing with all THE issues and questions that go along with it. Welcome to Overnight Leadership – where your career was upended in mere 24 hours. Moving into a more “formal” position of…

Minimum Best Effort (MBE) – the work required to achieve the most minimalistic of goals and “check the box” Minimum Viable Product (MVP) – the work required to create something that achieves a goal of being functional and usable on the path to achieving a larger goal. MBE is concerned with today, about creating something today, leaving it tomorrow and moving on, there is no ownership, there is no responsibility, there is no pride. MVP…

When I was in university, I remember one of my teachers asking the class… “Does a leader need to know the business they are in to lead?” No middle-ground, no sitting on fences – YES or NO. The answer is/was No.  Sure it helps to have some background knowledge in the business and industry, but it’s not required, it’s not a necessity. So what do they need if not knowledge of the business? They need…

Well this one was tricky to write because I’m at fault of this so many times, so I thought I’d take a step back and see what really is holding me back. https://www.lifehack.org/475679/how-to-eliminate-distractions-for-achieving-your-goals

Of course. Whether you’re an architect, lead developer, senior developer or anything else that focuses more on the technical solutions where you have no direct reports it’s not an optional skill, it’s a requirement. You take the lead in the architecture, the design,the creation – but also in the selling of that vision to your team, in the education of the team in how to use a component, in the deployment of that code to…