The best message to ever receive – “Compiled Successfully” – never changes no matter what language you work in, what code you write or what project you are working on. Your code might not do what it is supposed to do. It might do something odd when deployed. But the first step to happiness and success will always be, that it compiled successfully.
If you are always winning, you’ll never know what to do when you lose. You’ll never know how to help your team when they are faced with that change in paradigm, when things go wrong when people aren’t there when stuff doesn’t line up. You need that feeling of something going wrong, you need that emphasis of something breaking and having to figure your way out, you need that pressure to know you have to…
You can ask yourself the question, or you can ignore it and figure it out later, when it’s too late, when you don’t have time when you’re overburdened. Or you can figure out now, what you need, what will help you, and what elements will you grow. You can figure that out and then, and only then can you start learning, growing and moving forward.
Teams don’t come with Instructions, people on your team don’t either. Depending on where your codebase is at, that might come with next to nothing in terms of how things are done. Even if there are instructions, they are probably out of date, that’s because the team that was using them doesn’t need the instructions anymore, they know what to do, they know where to do it, they know what comes next, and where to…
The team needs a leader, the individual needs a mentor. You lead the team, by connecting with the individuals and figuring out what they need to buy into the vision. Some will resist, they can’t see it on the first, the second, or the eighteenth day. They have different viewpoints, different goals, and different ideas – the leader brings them into the focus of the team, not ignoring them but finding how they connect to…