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- Acknowledge how hard this is.
- Work Life Balance Be Damned – you are already late.
- Create a clear “done” condition, or you will open the door to a deathmarch.
- Win over your detractors or they will eventually grind you down.
- Create a bubble of hardcore like-minded developers.
- Make a milestone flowchart listing dependencies and who is in charge of what sub-system.
- Pick a stack that all the developers are familiar with and/or passionately want to learn.
- Have an executive facing ride-or-die business-side-of-the-house partner
- Pick an low-code architecture that leads directly to less bugs and faster feature time to market.
- Publish weekly milestone videos, using the “One more thing” jobs method.
- Give the impression of working nights and weekends even if you’re not.
- When you make a mistake, admit it quickly at the same time as you propose the way you’re going to fix it.
- Any ass can get a project to 80% complete. 95% is extremely difficult. 100% is a thing of legend.
- Work hard, have fun – worst case scenario you’ll be fired for trying to do the right thing.
That analogy at the end made me laugh out loud but then a few seconds later I realised it’s spot on.
Typo at section 14 work => worse