December 6, 2022
If you’re not on a team, it’s all you, there is no “we”, it’s just you, and that’s fine. But when you’re on a team, no matter what your role, you’re on a team, and that means only the team can and will ever will.
November 29, 2022
I wrote this article on Medium a while back called the “Software Manager Minimum”. At the time, I was writing about the bare minimum you need to be doing as a manager and leader on a software team in order to keep your team moving forward. In this I boiled it down to three questions you should always be asking yourself on a daily basis; What’s the Pulse of the team? How are we doing? Where is everyone at? Are we overloaded? Where do they need my help? What do they Need? Are we constrained on human or technical resources?
November 26, 2022
It’s easy to do the things that don’t challenge you, don’t push you, don’t force you to rethink what you are doing, and give you that boost of what you are good at. It’s much harder to realize you’re not good at everything, that one thing you are struggling with, you are struggling with for a reason because it’s not easy. That “thing” you working on, you might be the only one working on it and everyone might be staring at you wondering why you are working on it, because it’s tricky, because it’s tough but in the end you
November 17, 2022
This is always going to happen, someone will not always agree with what you are saying, what you are proposing, what you know to be the right path based on experience and implementation, or maybe just all the work you’ve put into it. You could be the greatest expert in the room and they still won’t listen to you (Even when they say teach us). You might have the whole room on board except for one person that doesn’t get it or doesn’t have it jive with their worldview of how things are supposed to go and they refuse to
November 11, 2022
You might have heard this phrased another way – “Reading between the Lines” – but what we’re asking you to do is listen for what is happening between the words. Are you not getting what is being asked of you? Are you asking for confirmation that you understood their issue? Are you arguing for what you want vs what they need? Listening between the words is figuring out the context, where the information is coming from, what it’s about, what matters, etc, etc – and those aren’t always read out to you word for word.
