After luck and talent, today we will look at motivation. You may be wondering what the title means, since motivation is often discussed in management and leadership. We talk about how to motivate employees, we talk about internal and external motivation... Yet motivation is probably the most overrated feeling.
Scatter-Gather is another member of the family of design patterns dedicated to separation of concern. The main benefit of the scatter-gather pattern is parallelization—the ability to perform several operations at once. It is therefore suitable for environments and languages that offer parallelization, have threads, workers, or can run new processes.
In the continuation of the series on factors that influence success, today we will look at talent. If you haven't read the article on luck, I recommend it. Many factors are similar, and I won't explain them again.
However, unlike luck, talent has a practical impact on success (it can be worked with). But what is talent? In my opinion, many people misunderstand talent.
Many people interpret talent as something that gives a person an advantage, and that is not true.
Commercial software development is more than just „write the code we tell you to write“. Creating software that can be sustained for years while adapting to changing markets and developing business models requires an understanding of evolutionary architectural approaches.
Architecture cannot be designed to remain the same when circumstances change. While there is no such thing as architecture that can withstand years of development, there are ways to design architecture that can handle changes.
Personally, I prefer leadership to management. You want the people on your team to think for themselves and eventually become self-managing. However, they need a leader to guide them.
Leadership means possessing the skills, decisiveness, and values that inspire others to follow.
What is your company optimized for? Is it optimized for middle management and bureaucracy? If so, delivering value will suffer.
What organizational constraints are limiting your productivity? Focusing your organizational structure on the value your company creates will make your people, customers, and CFO happy.
There's a difference between designing an MVP, software that you'll develop for three months and hand over to the customer, and software that you use internally or a software project that you want to maintain for years and sell to customers.
Developing software to find a market fit is different from developing software that already has 10,000 customers.
Understanding these differences is essential for success and requires strategic thinking and specific changes in development stages.