Observation created over 5 years agoConlin has officially sent out THE best meeting invite ever. He included a nicely formatted layout with three sections:
- what the general situation is and purpose for the meeting, including a freaking timeboxed 😍 and labeled agenda 🎉🎉🎉
- why the meeting is needed
- who will be attending the meeting and what they bring to the table in terms of how they can contribute to finding a solution
Conlin has simultaneously set us up for success in the best way possible while also being incredibly mindful of everyone's time. His thoughtfulness here helped me to feel incredibly valued. I think this is super awesome and is a setup that I want to follow in the future. Thanks Conlin!
Observation created over 5 years agoFeaturing:Conlin D.We put learners firstWe share before we're readyWe ask clarifying questionsWe highlight what's workingWe own our requestsWe recognize the opportunity in challengesWe inspire others to do better workWe don't wait to be told what to do, we take initiativeWe put the team before ourselvesWe challenge ourselvesWe critique, we don't complainCommunityInitiativeMentorshipProduct DiscoveryDiscovery engineerFront-end architectFront-end engineerLast week, I did a code review for Conlin. In the PR description, he did a phenomenal job at leaving detailed testing steps and notes around why the story was necessary. Beyond that, however, he also went out of his way to thoroughly talk through the issue on a deeper level. He explained the research he did on the problem, potential solutions (and why they wouldn't work), his decided solution (and why it does work), as well as the history and potential future of the problem. As both a reviewer and fellow engineer, I was really impressed by how much thought and effort went into this.
While I already find myself aiming to be as clear and informative as possible in my PR descriptions, seeing this inspired me to raise my standard going forward, and left me feeling grateful to work with Conlin.PR of Reference - https://github.com/lessonly/lessonly/pull/7482
Observation created almost 6 years agoI just wanted to give a shoutout to everyone on the practice squad (and others) who have been working super hard to make things work as smoothly as they possibly can in regards to Hippo. I know this is often behind the scenes work and there's probably even more technical work that I don't even see but you all have really stepped up to try and lower the impact that these issues will have on our customers and other folks internally. I'm sure this work can be frustrating but you all have done it so gracefully and willingly and I think that says a lot about your work ethic! Thanks for being rockstars and taking this on!
Observation created almost 6 years agoSo I thought this was worthy of a video shoutout here: https://www.loom.com/share/88ee172369584e2b8584ec5faf8af675
In short, Conlin took just a couple hours to put together a spike (check out his post about it here: https://lessonly.slack.com/archives/C8UPX4UPM/p1557925515038000) for Lessonly Conversations that enables our team to test our riskiest assumptions with customers, get closer to reality without writing much code, and begin the learning process on a 2019 commitment. This is a great example of sharing before ready, experimenting rapidly to begin learning, and trying something new!