Weather Events happen. Work Events happen. Family Events happen. All types of events that are outside of your control happen and can shift your day on a dime, changing everything you thought your day was going to be about into something else. You can rail against it all, or figure out a way to roll with it. You can’t change a downpour all day when you have planned a picnic (but you can have the…
If you’re not feeling it, if you’re stuck in the mire, if there are currently more questions than answers, that means a few things. You’re asking the questions instead of ignoring them, invariably there will be more. You’re past the excitement phase of “let’s do this” and are now into “let’s work on this” That feeling you have, is because you now see the road ahead of you, it’s clearer than it was before when…
The Last Test is the one that will determine your future. It’s not the last test, because now you have to take another one. And that won’t be the last one either. There is never a last test, only the next test. And after the Next Test, you want to push for there to be another one, because that’s how you keep moving forward.
Does it matter who found the answer? Or that the answer was found? Does it matter that it was the expert who found the answer or someone else who found a random post on the issue? What matters? Is the problem solved, and can everyone move on? Or is what matters that you found the answer? You can’t have both, one moves you forward, the other holds you back.
When fixing something small, don’t forget to step back and look at the bigger picture. Does this apply elsewhere? Can we make this better in other parts of our software? What is the impact of deploying this elsewhere? What if as part of this work, we start building a framework that we can keep building on? Fix the immediate problem, don’t get lost in the forest, and plan for the next iteration. You wouldn’t put…