Software Project Leadership

You might be wondering … errr … where else would you put first things?  I guess you’d be surprised where people put them … my Mom always said “a place for everything and everything in its place” … she’d want first things … right, you know, there … first.

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Management is management, right?  I recently polled a population of project managers asking the musical question - how much (or little) domain knowledge is needed to be an effective project manager?

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I keep my finger on the pulse of various groups online looking for people to help.  Sometimes you find people for whom the best advice is that you gotta “know when to run!”

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One of the key concepts in stoicism is that of “memento mori” Latin for “remember you will die.”  I guess that works for everybody but Keith Richards …

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What do you think is the least secure part of your computer system? 
If you answered “the wetware,” you win a prize.  Wetware is people, of course

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If you build it they will … err … buy it, right?  I mean … the engineering speaks for itself, right? Actually, no.  But isn’t persuasion just marketing … or sales?  Well, broadly speaking, yes.  In the sense that you have to sell your ideas.

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“Dr. Will, we are preparing to migrate from the server version of Atlassian tools to the Atlassian Cloud … what advice do you have as we get under way?"

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As promised, this is the first habit of the 8 habits of highly effective people applied to software development teams.  Reminder: instead of crafting 7 (or 8 ) habits out of whole cloth for software teams, we are applying Stephen Covey’s habits and seeing where that takes us

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Got a question from Chris W of Sioux City (Wait!  Isn’t that where the Litigation Hall of Fame is?) … he is having some customer challenges … this may belong in the Q&A playlist, but it is germane to software projects, so here we are …

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It is usually after the fact - after you have traversed new terrain.  Done something you’ve never done before.  You look back – figuratively, maybe literally – and wonder at what just happened

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