When you go to a meeting in a physical location you typically do the following; You take what you need. You go to the room. You start the meeting. When you go to a meeting virtually you typically do the following; Open the Invite Connect to the meeting (generally involves more than two clicks to confirm that you “really” want to go to the meeting. Show up in the meeting and fuss around with drivers…
Your audience is out there, you simply haven’t found them yet. You can have the best message and/or product out there, but without an audience, you will have nothing. Outline who your audience is, write down what they are looking for and what they need from you, then craft your message, the one that will help them understand who you are and what you are about. It might not work the first time, but that’s…
There is a kick in your step today as you start the first day of the New Year. Similar to the first day of a New Sprint where there is a kick to everything you are doing as you start fresh on the work you are doing. It doesn’t matter if the sprint has rolled over, if it’s continuing what you did before, or if it’s a bug being reported – you can’t change the…
I strongly dislike using the word Optics because it immediately transfers over to – “how do we look”, “what are we doing”, “what do people think”, etc, etc, etc and it removes your focus from where you should be and what you need to focus on. Without even trying we give out Optics – saying we’re busy but then not doing anything about it? Saying you hear someone but doing the exact opposite? We’ve all…
If you want to be seen as the developer that “knows it all” you better work hard to make sure you do (an impossible task). Or, if it’s something much smaller as – “yes I’m really busy and do have not to time for other tasks” – then you better be really busy. The statements we make are descriptions of what we are going through and what we are doing but the actions we take,…