When building a new team, the most important factors to look for; What do you need? When do you need it by? Can they help you get to what you need? Do they have time to be on the team? Everyone wants to be on the team, but whether they can help with what you need and whether they have the time to be on the team? These are the critical factors that will define…
Every team has them. The “Ism” – the CodeIsm, the EnterpriseIsm, the SupportIsm. They are the ideas, the culture, the vernacular that makes your team, your team and separates it from everyone else. They are the rallying cry for getting things done and delivering. They are a good thing to have as long as they project the good of your team and not the “that’s the way we have always done it”, “that’s how it…
We’re back to enforcing people to exist in person to trust that they will do the job. For two years we trusted everyone, we found the best and the brightest that got work done – we might have slowed down – but we got work done. And now we’re back to enforcing limits on how and where people can deliver from. What did we learn during this forced remote experiment that we all took part…
Have you scheduled it yet? Have you thought about it? Are you waiting for someone else to do it? What’s your Budget? Team events don’t need to be expensive, they can definitely be simple and their entire goal is to bring people together, have some laughs, and get to know each other better. The smallest team events that have been ad-hoc, end of the day, 30 minutes to an hour I rate better than the…
Back to figuring out the hard problems. Back to banging your head against the wall. Back to having setbacks. Back to things breaking over and over again. Back to betas that blow up. Back to Build Mode.