Even though our knees are designed to bend, we are often reminded to bend them. Get lower, extend your center of gravity, become more balanced, be prepared to fall. Everyone’s shaking their heads in agreement – yup, that makes sense. But how often do we do it? Not enough. Because getting there consistently, requires constant practice, constant reminders, and constant focus. But it’s an easy thing to do.
We add pinches of ingredients to recipes, not the entire container. If the taste is still off, we add a little more. Little tweaks are the changes we make that improve what we are doing. They are a great way to make a minuscule improvement that could have a great impact on what you are doing. Only if you’re brave enough to do them. There is comfort in what we have always done, and that…
Leading a team. Testing Code. Writing Code. Building Requirements. Yes it gets tough and is never easy and there are good days and bad days, but this is what you signed up for because outside of the bad days there are always going to be good days, great days, and yes gooderer days (seriously that’s a word Grammarly). This is what you signed up for, push through the bad so you can get to the…
At some point in a project, sprint, release, etc we have the process for what we are delivering mapped in our head and we are grinding on it. We are tweaking as we go and it might not be perfect but it’s what we’re doing to get things out the door. We are under pressure, overwhelmed, and trying to keep everything together on a shoestring to get it out the door. As much as small…
Yes, your release is late. Yes, the bugs are piling up. Yes, you have code that needs to go out the door. Yes, your chats are blowing up with everyone and anyone messaging you. Getting angry, chippy, or frustrated doesn’t help the problem and doesn’t help your team. Be the calm within the storm. The release will go out, the more bugs that are found the better the quality, your code will see the light…