July 18, 2021
How many are in your queue? When are you going to start them? Set a date, jump in, and get going. You paid for it, might as well use it and learn something new. Otherwise, give it away to someone who will. (Not sure you can gift courses in this way, but that would be a cool popup kick to getting going this way).
July 17, 2021
Bad News is not as good as good news. It is news nonetheless and not all bad news is truly bad news. Sometimes it’s an update – “we’re late on feature X because people have been away, this sprint we’re going to pour some people on in an attempt to catch up.” It’s bad, not good. But Bad News is never as bad as Ugly News. “We were late on Feature X, we didn’t want to tell you. We let it sit for too long and now throwing more people at it isn’t going to fix the problem, it’s just
July 16, 2021
We all have one. It’s our internal guide for when we start a new team, a new project, a new job, a new something. It’s the four to fourteen steps on what we do when starting up. If you’re a leader it might look like this; Meet Team Figure out what I do. Meet Manager. Figure out what I need to do. Where is code? Schedule One-On-Ones And the list goes on and on, however long it is for you and the pieces and how many they number are all up to you. We all have manuals, some are more
July 15, 2021
You can’t be everything to everyone. It’s impossible. I realized this a number of years ago as a developer when new frameworks started popping up every day. I couldn’t learn them all and be good at all of them. But I could be good at some of them. Real good. Awesome good. Find your niche, own it, make it your own. Don’t be everything to everyone.
July 14, 2021
I’m fascinated with the Gutters. For all you comic book lovers out there, the Gutters are the space between the panels where the real action happens. It’s where our brains cross over from Panel A to Panel B and our brains intuit what is happening in between. The same applies to your meetings, the Gutters is where the real work happens, between Meeting 1 and Meeting 2. It’s where the success of Meeting 2 is evaluated against if the actions from the previous meeting were implemented. The Gutters are where the magic happens, it’s where the hard work happens, it’s
