The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines accountability as an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions. As leaders, we are often tasked with keeping our teams accountable and being accountable ourselves. The problem is that accountability is set as an expectation, but anyone in your organization will rarely show you how to hold […]
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First 90 day plan – AI sponsored post
The first 90 days of a new job are critical for success. In order to make the most of this time, it is important to have a plan. The following is a suggested plan for the first 90 days: Establish your goals and priorities. What do you hope to accomplish in your new role? What […]
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Working with contractors
Recently, we’re getting ready to engage with contractors to help us drive a major initiative forward. Behind the scenes at work, here is a view that happens before contractors write any code. Procurement It starts by figuring out what company you’ll be working with. Your company might already have a pre-vetted list of vendors, but […]
Today felt productive, engaging, and like I finally made real progress. Here is how the day went. I created a new ProjectManager class to contain the logic for the project domain. Since I am exposing the most straightforward functionality, I only added create and read methods, with creation only having a title as a required […]
Day four was fun but short. I began by setting my Pomodoro timer to 25 minutes to work on the first milestone, creating and viewing projects. The project’s definition already has a lot of functionality, so I constrained the milestone only to include the title as part of the project. The framework I am using https://aspnetboilerplate.com is […]
Day 3 took me towards project management; here is what happened. I managed to get 30 minutes in before the end of my day, so I was determined to make the most out of them. Recently, someone shared an article on project management and the importance of setting milestones rather than features. Using the concept […]
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Project empathy, day two
For day two of our project, I only got in 30 minutes of work. Here is how that went. Since I am in management, I am constantly in project management and productivity software such as Jira and Todoist. The idea is to build a project management tool that feels as simple as todoist. Doing so […]
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Project empathy, day one
Today was my first-day writing code for what I call “the empathy project” to build empathy for what engineers go through. Here is how my first day went. I started with an existing template to give a good starting point. After following the instructions, I downloaded the template and ran into my first error. Something […]
The rumor mill is hard to contain and impossible to stop. After all, people are curious, and when they know change is coming, they want to know a few things How am I affected? When is it happening? Is it good or bad? How are those around me affected? Who do I go to with […]
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A short one
Well, I lost my daily writing streak. I got some back pain, heavy days at work, and busy afternoons with the kids. By the time 8 PM rolls around, I am exhausted and not really in the mood to write. But here I am, at 6:23 CST on December 1st, 2021, trying to pick up […]