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- If you are stuck on a single problem for more than three hours it is time to call help.
- You work for your manager not for company. Is it?
- Keep your ideas to yourself until you have more around them, like useful impact for team, reasonable confidence of execution, POC & estimates
- Best part of day must be spent on very important and more impacting work
- Never over promise – which inevitably leads to under delivery. Always under promise and over deliver.
- Tech debt vs timely delivery – always let the later win. Nobody loves a delayed but perfect release. (It may not even be that perfect)
- 20% of your time should be spent on something your manager is not aware at this instance. Provided you always work 20% more time than average.
- Consistent schedule is preferable for your health and your team’s health. Remember Rome is not built in a day.
- Know and understand dependencies of the feature before you write submit first draft of plan.
- Know your red-flags, and feel free to jump ship before they eat you alive.
- Every morning and evening write personal logs (as simple as OneNote )
- Nobody likes a smart-goblin.
- Always go prepared to a meeting.