Do you have a Plan to Grow? To improve? To get better? To close the gaps that are keeping you up at night? If not, take 30 minutes, (yes that’s all it will take) and come up with one. If you need to put your tomato timer on it to do it, then do it. And if you are still trying to find your 30 minutes because it’s “too much” – ask yourself that same…
If you’re waiting to see how you are doing based on the results of your next review, you’ve already lost. You know how you are doing. You know what you need to work on. You know what your strengths are. Performance Reviews are a confirmation of what you should already know. So go fix what you know you need to work on.
Why are you attending meetings you don’t value or get anything out of? If you don’t value it, if you don’t provide any value to it is it worth your time? It’s not a bad thing to say you are not contributing to a meeting and leave? That’s not being bad, that’s being upfront, and that’s showing that you care about your time and what you do. Meetings don’t need 11 decision-makers in them, and…
You gather a foundation when you learn by reading, watching, assimilating, asking questions, and comprehending – that is foundational learning. But real learning? Real understanding? You learn by doing. If you’re not doing, you’re not learning.
The Dev Manager should always have this number in the back of their head. They should always be working towards it. They see the big picture, they see how the requirements are flowing in, they see how QA is testing, they see how things are working, what is doing well, what is doing poorly, what is slowing down the team, and where they are excelling. They should always have this number in their head +…