I know this is one of those topics out there that people might go – “oh great another blog about letting people fail and everyone being happy and unicorns and rainbows and let’s hold hands and save the world, etc, etc, etc…”. And to some extent it might be, to some extend it might not. One of, if not the hardest part about managing/leading a team is giving your team the opportunity to fail because at some…
No one has ever, ever shipped a piece of software and thanked the process. Apologies to everyone that work with methodologies and ALM, but it’s true. Why? Because, processes don’t ship software, people do. Do a mental back-check of the last few releases to see what really got them out the door? Was it the check-in process, how bugs were logged or what happened at the last triage meeting? Probably not. No one ever ships a release and goes…
Many years ago (too many in fact), I undertook the task of running a half-marathon (21km) and training for it in 7 short weeks. At the time I had a friend who had run many marathons, New York and Boston to name a few, and she outlined a complete training regimen for me to get me in shape. I still remember my time of 1:58:05 (primarily because I wanted to be under 2 hours). To this…
I have two girls that play ringette – fast game, great game – the older they get, the more intense it gets to the extent that after all these years of not being able to skate I’ve been lacing up my skates once a week to get on the ice with them (although let’s be honest… we are miles apart). I’m one of those guys that cheers loud for his kids and sometimes I have the odd suggestion for…
I was having dinner with some friends the other night when they told me about their new cat they named Leeroy – before they could finish I instinctively yelled out – “JEEEEENNNNNNKKKKKKKINNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSS”. No one knew what I was talking about – they had never heard of the legend. I tried – valiantly – to educate them because hey who doesn’t know about Leeroy? I know it’s old, but still it’s so relevant to what we do…