Teams are about picking the right people. Not always the best, but the right. With the right people, the team can do anything. With the wrong, they will never rise above where they are. What goes into being the right people – so much, and it’s different wherever you go but at its core – they have to be willing to change, to grow, to know when to lead and when to team and lastly…
The hardest part, in any endeavor, is getting knocked down and getting back. But of course, you need to get back up with the same feelings you had before; Optimism Caring Happiness Enthusiasm You have to shed all the other emotions that have overshadowed it and do it again, same effort, same original feelings – not easy.
You can’t ask for others that which you would not ask of yourself. You can’t have expectations of others if you do not have those expectations of yourself. If you want everyone to be happy, then you will need to be happy yourself. If it’s not the environment for you to be happy, then that tells you something. The bar gets set when you set it and when you keep raising it. But it’s never…
You can start hard at the beginning, going, moving, taking hits, figuring what does and doesn’t work. You can falter in the middle, taking stumbles, the hits adding up, the confusion and frustration seeping through. But you always, always, finish strong, always giving your last push with everything you have.
Growing Teams isn’t easy. Growing development teams while having to deliver releases is an endeavor in its own category that is always met with – “I don’t want to onboard new people while I have a pile of work to get done” – which is completely understandable. We always default to scaling by people, headcount, and numbers – and yet there are other ways to scale as well – Process, Growth, Minimalism, and Skill. I…