When you are asked to lead an existing team, the idea that you might get to pick your own team quickly evaporates and you have to come to terms with a few things, immediately… This isn’t the team you thought you’d be leading.The work still needs to be delivered.Can this team do it.If not, how will you get them there. Breaking in new team isn’t easy because more often then not, the reason you’ve been…
It doesn’t matter what your role is – developer, product manager, QA, business analyst, tester, leader, manager – the question is still and always will be the same. What can I do for my Team? When it’s all hands on deck and everyone is trying to get a release out the door, it might be something as simple as ordering the takeout (been there). When we’re knee deep in a design session on a customer…
If you want to be the most for your team and help them get the succeed. The best way to do that is to learn their habits. How do they learn best? What tools help them work? What distractions are in their way? What do their schedules look like? Who do they work best? All of these questions (and more) help you put that picture together on how you can help your team and what…
The hardest part about being remote from your team is trying to figure out how to engage them on an ongoing basis. How do you keep them involved? How do you keep them engaged? Team activities are a great way, to get out there and do something together. Look at the team activities you’ve done in the past year – escape rooms, sporting challenges, outdoor excursions – in some way, shape or form they all…
One of the hardest parts about running a podcast is managing the backlog. I thought this was hard in software but when you are trying to record content in advance, so you can ship weekly and not skip a beat when something, like a Pandemic, happens it means content gets pushed out farther than we like. One of our best interviews of Season 2 of Remotely Prepared just shipped as our first episode of 2021.…