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May 24, 2022

Agility / Influence / Collaboration / Work Pressure

In Software development, Influence without authority is a critical team member/mentor/manager trait.

Agile is not about

  • One sprint for functionality
  • One sprint for performance
  • One sprint for refactor

With the world going by weekly demos. Agile means

  • Collaborating together and bringing the best ideas and building with prioritized ideas
  • Evaluate, If it fails, back to basics and build
  • Quick to recognize mistakes, humble enough to rework, listen and evaluate with the interest in time

Work pressure and deadlines are byproducts of poor design choices and poor execution vs great planning. Knowledge does not come with deadlines, It comes with learning and experimentation. 

When you learn

  • It takes 3X efforts to try different codes, understands
  • When you repeat it again it takes 2X effort as most unknowns are cleared
  • When you master it takes X efforts as its proven/worked / familiar for you

Everything takes time, In a world driven by demos, and communication. the real effort is considering meaningful work by proactively including design, performance and picking best ideas without considering who / what / why.

Keep Thinking!!!

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