I’ve reviewed the first two laws from Maxwell’s 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, and described how I plan to introduce them to my team of coders. Now I’ll go over the next two laws, the laws of process and navigation. 3. The Law of Process The law of process states that leadership develops daily, not [...]
Apr 052010
The first week of our team’s pair programming initiative went well. The trepidation I noticed the first couple of days of the week changed to guarded enthusiasm in the last couple of days. Some of the pairings weren’t truly programming, and were more of a “here’s how I perform this task” gimmick, but for the [...]
I’ve been tasked with reading John Maxwell’s 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership as one of my goals this quarter. I’ve decided I need to come up with ways to not only apply what I learn to my personal growth as a manager, but also to the growth of the team of coders that I manage. With [...]
Mar 282010
So I decided to move my team down the official pairing path starting this week. Basically 25% of each of my coder’s time will be spent paired up with someone else. Kinda shocking when I actually put it that way. See, I manage a pretty pragmatic team, and I have a pretty pragmatic boss. Our [...]
