February 27, 2023
Do you Trust Them?
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.
Articles for category: Leadership
February 16, 2023
The Distractions to Team Growth
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 that.
February 13, 2023
Leading Devs: What value in a Meeting?
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 are they coding away on something else? Do they know what the follow-up from the meeting is? If you aren’t engaged in a meeting, you’re
February 12, 2023
Leading Devs: The Daily Pulse
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 (sometimes no music), and I’m just working away focused on those problems because I need to get them done. To crank out code. As a
February 11, 2023
Make a Plan When Things Go Wrong
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 wrap your head around, keep breaking them down until you have nothing exceeding a few days. Most importantly break it down to the level where