July 22, 2020
We’re still in a deficit when it comes to good, scary good leaders in software. We’re still wondering why software is taking so long to build and never getting out the door. We’re still looking aimlessly at each other across ZOOM channels hoping someone puts their hand up. We’re still hoping that someone else is going to do the work. They won’t. It’s your turn, we need you, take your seat at the table.
July 21, 2020
When you’re working on a problem with someone, trying to figure out what is going, what is happening, who is going to do what, what’s next, etc, etc. Whatever it is, whenever there is someone else working on the problem with me, when I see that prompt that I’m about to get punted from a Remote Desktop Session… I feel a wave of relief knowing I’m not alone and there is a team working with me to get the problem done. From there, we’ll figure it out. But you need a team, that has that trust in each other, to
July 20, 2020
If you want the next app you write to be the greatest thing since slice bread there are two things you need to build into it. One solve a problem, this is key, if you’re not solving a problem, you’re building a game, that’s okay, but we’re in it to solve problems. Next once you solve that problem, create a way for them to bring their team into the mix. Not their friends, but their team. This isn’t a social app you are creating (unless it is), it’s a killer app. Solving a problem, knowing that the problem belongs to
July 17, 2020
We worry too much about messing things up. When we should be worrying about holding back and not messing it up in the first place. It’s the mess that shows us how best to clean things up and make them better then they were before. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
July 16, 2020
It’s days like these that I am reminded of the times I had 8 Hyper-V servers running at full capacity in my basement throughout the winter. I would do my best to block the heat as best I could but I could hear them grinding away in my basement. It was when summer came around that the AC could go back on and cool them down giving them a reprieve from their long winters work. And on days like this, I would never hear a thing because they would be so happy to be so perfectly chilled. Every time the
