Focus! Focus! Focus!

Your team needs to be on the same page with 1 defining leader who also works with the team. You can’t put your hand in too many cookie jars. Your liable to getting a sugar rush. Find a product that you know will sell, and exert all your energy to make that product the best thing you know how to make. When your satisfied with the outcome, then move to another project.

Monarchy is old school!

Listen to the lowly developer at the bottom of the food chain. We may not be high in the ranking, but we are getting our hands dirty everyday. We understand the technology, and understand our audience. Managers seem to make all the decisions without asking the people who really have experience in this area. Modern business mantra is “You need to be a Team Player”, but do we really work as a team?

Use your talent!

Too often we focus on just getting the job done. So the janitor must do the gardening, the secretary must do the accounting, and the CEO ends up washing the toilets. Put the talent in the right place. If your gift, like Jeremiah, is developing amazing user experiences on the web, then don’t have him fixing minor technological bugs, don’t put your database engineer on an Android Application Project, and don’t put your Web Developer on a full blown internal reporting system. You want quality not just to get it done.

Thanks for letting me rant.
Johnathan