Software Project Leadership
Software Project Leadership is intended for SaaS founders, managers, and owner/operators who do not have a technical background but who are in a position that includes leading one or more technical projects. Starting a software development project is easy … but finishing it - successfully - is a different story.
Episodes
62 episodes
Habit # 06 - Synergize
If you thought “synergy” was yet another buzzword from the 80s (or 90s … ), like synchronicity, then you would be mistaken … unless you meant, like, 80 BC (or earlier).
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What to Do When There Is Too Much to Do
If you have been following along the current best practices you know that the answer is not … “multitask.” But is that advice even possible to follow?https://www.etsy.com/listing/1632838223/tech-team-building-buzz-word-bingo
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Episode 60
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4:19
Habit 5: Seek First To Understand, Then To Be Understood
This is all about empathic listening … listening to understand … not just waiting for the other guy to finish so that you can say what is on your mind
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Episode 59
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4:10
Technology Leadership and Adler's Three Pillars
Would it be outrageous for me to suggest that the primary function of leadership is to teach? Because the primary function of teaching is to lead …
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Episode 58
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3:21
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
You can’t turn around without stubbing your toe on win/win solutions … everybody talks that talk. We hear about win/win quite a bit. It is a buzzword mercilessly deployed by salespeople who at least pay it lip service. ...
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Episode 57
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5:04
TQM and A Growth Mindset
Have you ever worked in - or with - an organization that really has taken the Quality message to heart?spl.drwill.co/freeconsult
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Searching For A Solution
Jon is looking for a software solution for a specific problem - business model, actually. Seems he’s outgrown his spreadsheet.Jon “… suppl[ies] furniture to clients on an 'as and when' basis - i.e. we don't hold stock but order in...
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Bridge - Paradigms of Interdependence
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is organized into two sections - Private Victory and Public Victory. “Paradigms of Interdependence” is the bridge between them.spl.drwill.co/freeconsult
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Envisioning a Software/Tech Product
Psychologists will tell you that what you aim at determines what you see rather than what you see determines what you aim at … see the difference? I guess you would need to aim at the difference to see it.Spl.drwill.co/freeconsult...
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Episode 18
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4:26
Non-Technical Leaders of Technical Projects
So, I had a question from Tony V: “You gave three problems that non-technical technology project leaders have to figure out. I am a non-technical project lead on a software project … what do I need to know about these things?“
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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5:55
Habit # 03 Put First Things First
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,...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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7:13
Domain Knowledge: How Much is Enough?
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?spl.drwill.co/freeconsult
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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Knowing When to Run
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!”https://spl.drwill.co/costriskhttps://spl.drwill.co/ris...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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Habit # 02 - Begin with the End in Mind
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 …https://spl.drwill.co/costriskhttps://spl.drwill.co/riskhttps://spl.drwi...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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5:03
Social Engineering
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 coursehttps://spl.drwill.co/costriskhttps://spl.drwill.co/riskhttp...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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4:22
Persuasion in Marketing
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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3:48
Migrating to the Atlassian Cloud
“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?"Spl.drwill.co/webinarhttps://www.amazon.com/What-You-Dont-Know-Successfully/dp/B...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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5:35
Habit # 1; Be Proactive
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 h...
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The Customer is Always Right, Right?
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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Season 2
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Episode 8
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4:26
Resiliency
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 happenedspl.drwill.co/freeconsultspl.d...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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4:41
7 Habits of Highly Effective Software Development Teams
A lot of people know the book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey. I had heard of it years ago, but had never taken the time to read it … until recently. How many people know that the subtitle of the book is “...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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5:09
Connecting the AI Dots
It is reported that Microsoft is investing $1 billion (that’s billion, with a “b”) in OpenAI the parent of ChatGPT. We should be thankful that there are companies that are so generous and self-sacrificing and willing to help the open sour...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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6:08
Opposite of the Imposter Syndrome
The “imposter syndrome” affects many (sub-)creators of training/coaching content – but they are reassured that they only have to be slightly more knowledgable than their audience. Maybe that is why there is so much fluffy training clutter...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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