When you think of the work your team does, what metrics are important to you? How often they are in the office? How many bugs originate from code they are writing? What their overall contribution to releases are? What their bug return rate from QA is? How many unit tests they create with their code?Continue reading “How do you Measure your Team?”
Category Archives: Initiative
Conference Season is Upon Us
We’re in the thick of it now – Conference aka “Drinking from the Firehose” Season is upon us. From now until October, the conversation around the water cooler and SLACK channel’s are going to be focused on one thing. What conference are you going to this year? And if you didn’t get your first pickContinue reading “Conference Season is Upon Us”
Choosing between the Rewrite or Fix It
It’s easier to rewrite something than to figure out what is going wrong. It’s easier to start from scratch, ignore the history and do it your way. It’s easier to ignore, then engage. The decision to rewrite versus fixing a code problem is always rooted in emotion and not the code. We Can Do ItContinue reading “Choosing between the Rewrite or Fix It”
Hiring the Right Person for the Wrong Job
Hiring people is the hardest part of any organization’s growth. You have this perfect symbiosis of people working together in your environment, your customers and market share are growing and now you need to add to it. You need to add to it for all the right reasons – they are overworked, you need moreContinue reading “Hiring the Right Person for the Wrong Job”
Your First Team Meeting
Your first Team Meeting is your most important meeting you will ever hold. It’s the meeting that will set the direction of your team for the coming days, weeks and months as you embark on your path as a new leader. It’s not an easy meeting. It’s not a “what’s everyone working on” meeting. YouContinue reading “Your First Team Meeting”
Where did it Start?
I’ve been asked this question a few times over the last months as Code Your Way Up has got closer to completion and is set to be GA (Generally Available) in the next two weeks. I’ll try to boil this down to a few key points on where the idea came from… I’d been writingContinue reading “Where did it Start?”
