There is always someone on the team who drives the car. Having two drivers will always result in a person having to take their hands off the wheel otherwise it’s a constant back-and-forth push and pull down the road when what the team needs is to be going straight. If there is no driver, step up and become the driver. If there is a driver, but they don’t know where to go, help them navigate.…
Because it’s harder. But in the end, it’s worth it, but who wants to do things the hard way? Who wants to do all that extra work to get? Where? This post has most likely been cued by the Tv Show “For all Mankind”, where the road was less traveled, but worth the work to get there.
Hybrid Team Events are no longer going to be the outlier, they are going to become the norm. Virtual Pubs and Trivia Nights worked because everyone is in the same boat, we were all confined to our rooms so the experience was the same for all – give or take the odd standing desk, bigger rooms, and nicer windows. Hybrid events mean the scales are tipped, not everyone is at home, and it might only…
Good Architects find the bad in a design that you might be in love with and perfectly aligns to your comfort design. They look at what you’ve done and show you where it could fail and point out gaps you might have missed. They are the second set of eyes that raises the game of your code and ensures you are learning new things all along the way. In short, they ensure quality is delivered,…
You can kick off the formation of a Team at the first event. But the building, the trusting, the working, the coming together, the ups, the downs, the failures, and the eventual, actual formation of the team, doesn’t happen till much later, when the team has taken all those small steps to becoming a team. But it doesn’t happen at the end of the first, second or third day, it only starts then.