Do you trust your team? If you do, anything is possible. If you don’t, nothing will ever happen. If you never try, you will never know.
Pointing out what others are doing wrong. Putting energy into what is preventing you from achieving your goals. Lamenting what has happened. Focusing on the negativity. Not putting energy into the development to grow. Not mistakes, not failures, not attempts – but everything above – those are distractions that hurt a team and turn it from something potentially incredible to something that will never reach its full potential. Discard the distractions, because they are just…
We all have meetings and they aren’t going anywhere. Status meetings, Standup Meetings, Townhall Meetings, Update Meetings, Meetings for the Meetings, Meetings that maybe could have been emails, New Announcement Meetings, Interview Meetings, etc, etc, etc, the list goes on. And when it comes to your team being involved in meetings there are only two questions you should always be asking yourself. Are they getting something out of this meeting? i.e., are they contributing OR…
Developers crank out code. Not by how many lines they do, or how much they get out the door, but by how they design it, test it, debug it, architect it, smoke test it, and compare it against different frameworks, etc, etc, etc. They do all that work to crank out code. When doing all those tasks, developers go into a tunnel (or the cave). I love working in the cave, my headphones are on…
Things might be going very badly. Things might not be where you hoped they would be. Plain and simple, everything is going wrong. You have two options – lament all that is going wrong and wonder “why oh why does this keep happening to me?” or make a plan. Outline the steps lay them out, and figure out what they need to do and what comes after what. If they are still too big to…