Moving the needle begins with setting the right goals.
As an engineering leader, senior developer, or founder of a new startup, I want you to take a minute and think – really think – about a project you are currently working on.
Now, let me ask you four questions about that project:
- What will you consider a huge success?
- What will you consider a massive failure?
- How do you know that you are currently on the right path towards success?
- And my last question is, once finished, how can you tell if you nail what you wanted to achieve?
As engineering managers, we run many projects – including:
- Moving from one frontend framework to another;
- Replacing our database with a new and shiny one;
- Creating the killer feature that will give us the edge over our competitors.