Break down the effort… Practice 3 times a week for the last 6 months. Close to 48+ hours of driving to and from tournaments. Playing in 30+ games. Who knows how many ice packs, bruises and strained muscles. Hours spent learning plays upon plays upon plays. All that effort, over the course of 6 months to qualify, to reach one set of games which will separate you from the rest of the pack.  One Tournament to…

Renegade – traitor, deserter, betrayer, dissenter. Wow – much worse synonyms then I had originally thought when I started thinking about this, but alas there it is. I read those four words and I immediately think about the impact towards people of taking those actions but in thinking it up saw it as something completely different… Those who constantly break the status quo in search of something better (The Betrayer)? Those that can’t let the…

Take 3 parts great people. Take 1 ounce of luck. Take 2 cups of awesome product. Add 1 tablespoon of secret sauce. And poof – Instant Culture Not quite. It’d be great if we could all have that super awesome culture of “Awesome Company Du Jour” – even when it changes to a completely different company, we’d simply switch over to that new brand of company. Yeah that’d be awesome – that’d work – except it won’t.…

How many times have you been a meeting with someone to have them take your words and regurgitate them back into a message that is completely off topic from your original idea? Once a Month? Once a Week? Once a Day? When you look at those missed interactions, how often is it the same person or group of people? How about when the message is targeted at people you know vs those you don’t? What…

It’s been a long time since I’ve written about what you could call the “Rogues Gallery” of Software Development Teams. We have the Nitpicker, the Backbencher and the Doomsayer but today we are introducing the legend themselves – the Whiner. It’s super easy to know who Whiner is… Whine about the requirements Whine about the codereview Whine about the unit tests Whine about the QA Plan Whine about the deployment taking too long Whine about the servers…