1 month ago
The weather gets warmer. The sun comes out. And the urge to clean comes out. Windows and doors are open. Boots and heavy jackets are put away. It’s the time of year for renewal. It can apply to your house, your job, your role, and your current project. No one ever complained about Spring Cleaning!
1 month ago
I like Free Lunch. I don’t read too much into it – pizza is pizza, sandwiches are sandwiches, burgers are burgers. It’s a fun time to hang out and chat with people. From a manager’s point of view, it takes nothing to create this environment – $100 – $150 – depending on the size of your team, if you look at what they earned you in OT this week, you’re still saving $4k. Sometimes you work for a place that doesn’t have $4k, but they have $150 to say thanks. I don’t think a free lunch replaces your salary, but
1 month ago
It’s not an easy time to be leading teams these days. If you’re running a software team, here are some things I’d be considering; Yes, AI is here, let’s focus on what we have to do and how we can leverage it. Let’s focus on the value we create in our work. Working on legacy code? Great, there is a need for that, but our plan will be to move forward and remove it. Are there areas for automation we should investigate to help the team work better? The team works better when it is moving as one, when concerns
1 month ago
AI will give you steps on how to lead people, but it’s not in there doing the hard work, the in-the-trenches work, the back and forth with the team member who is struggling. It’s not in their thinking about how to motivate them, and looking at how they acted, what their body language was, the tone of their voice, or everything going on in their life. Yes, AI is going to give you suggestions, plans, and worksheets, but it’s not going to get in there and do the face-to-face that’s still needed to help someone grow and learn. That’s on
2 months ago
I have an issue with repositories, source control, and JIRA projects that are scattered to the heavens. It’s easy for people to hide. They can say they are working on something, but not be and it’s because they are hidden in a project, somewhere, that no one knows about. Reduce the hiding spots, increase the visibility.
