🇬🇧 What Messi Can Teach You About Software Development Success
Summary:
In this video, I draw parallels between Lionel Messi’s approach to soccer and our software development practices. Just like Messi sees the entire field and prepares for the game, I emphasize the importance of reviewing our backlog and understanding tickets before the sprint starts. I encourage you to take ownership during sprint meetings and be proactive in tackling challenges, even if it means passing the ball to a teammate when necessary. Additionally, I urge you to document your victories and share them through a Loom video and email to highlight your contributions. Let’s aim to be top players in our field!
Transcript:
0:00: hey, hey, hey, hey, Yes, Messi always see the first, then later the tree. So Messi always sees the soccer match.
0:12: All everything, all the players, everything was going on, the context, everything. For instance, in software development, when the sprint is about to start, yes, when the sprint is about to start, you have to see the first.
0:28: So you see the backlog, the backlog tickets, especially for upcoming sprints, you go ahead and read those tickets, you prepare with a head of time, you know what’s going on with these tickets, what those tickets belong to, which epics.
0:45: And so you will not have any surprise later. So when you have the meeting, you know what’s going on, you know what is the context, you know, if a ticket is not completely understood or not.
1:00: So, for Messi, it takes like seconds or minutes to see all the soccer match, all the players and so on.
1:09: But for you, we will take you like a 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes. And then, you know, reviewing all of these tickets.
1:18: And then it’s going to be really easy when you are in that spring meeting because the business analyze the PM will start talking okay let’s debate about this ticket okay and you know that and then you can take ownership you can participate very active and then you could say oh that will take the following
1:36: oh that’s a we can do the following approach or I can take ownership of oh that ticket and then boom then people will say okay oh Irvano, Irvano Luis Maria is a messy a top player there you go you see and then later when you start working in the spring it’s gonna be much easier.
1:54: For me, it’s like, oh, one rival. Not rolling. Two rivals. Not rolling. Three, four, five, six, seven, eight. No issues.
2:01: Why? Because you already know the tickets, you’re prepared. And also you’re debating the spring planning. And then when you start working on those tickets, then it’s just developing, implementing those ones.
2:12: But if one, you know, there could be one rival that could be a little bit difficult, then what you have to do is basically put your notes at your comments.
2:22: Okay, I’ve been following the following approach. I did the following and I started to work on this. I couldn’t do the following, but then what that’s messy if you can figure out it passed the ball.
2:35: Okay, you also passed the ball. Okay, you say, okay, I will stop working on this because I need the following information.
2:41: Until the time, please help me Maria with this and then boom, you passed one ticket. Pass it. Remember, follow the ball.
2:49: Okay? Very easy. And then the bulk is moving. So you keep working other tickets, you start knocking down, knocking down.
2:59: And then goal, and that means that you have a completely wrap up your sprint and also help your teammates by working on other tickets or basically by helping them doing a lot of code reviews.
3:11: And then with that, you are a messy, awesome, right? And then when Messi r**, you know, his scores, four goals, five goals.
3:22: And then Messi always, always, no matter what, always goes to a conference room. OK, and he starts speaking about the King, the victories, singing the victories.
3:35: What you have to do as well, of course, there is not going to be somebody, OK, hey, Maria, Hey, Rarooka, how the game went?
3:45: No, nobody will say that. How will the spring go? No, you have to record yourself like I am doing right now.
3:54: OK, do it with loom. And then talk about your weekly summary of with all your victories, OK, write an email.
4:05: And loom with AI will give you all the summary, put it right there, and then send that email to that technical managers, your partners, and then to general managers as well.
4:16: And then these people will see, oh, wow, Raul, Maria, Carlos, wow, that person is awesome. I can see his work, you know, that general manager, okay, he has been in a bunch of meetings and so on, and then see this weekly summary report with all your victories, oh wow, that’s a top player, that’s a top
4:45: player, wow, and then boom, closes the email. You see? Then you have your moment, moment of fame, okay? And of course you have to record yourself, you have to annotate your victories, and then do a quick weekly recap a long video and boom there you go it’s really easy to do that okay it doesn’t take
5:08: too much time you know when Messi is in the conference room it doesn’t take like a two hours no just a 15 minutes or 20 minutes and that’s it and that’s the time that you want to be taking in order to prepare the email and also the long video boom there you go haha so three things that you have to follow
5:26: a pharmacy. One, seeing the forest, seeing all the soccer again, okay, so that you are prepared, and then you knock out your ribos, you knock out tickets, it’s very easy.
5:40: You pass the ball. If a ticket is very difficult, then pass the ball, work another ticket, and then come back to that, okay, and score as much as you can with that implementation.
5:51: And don’t forget to sync your victory, Okay, to record a video, a weekly email meeting, a weekly email, and then people will love that.
6:05: Awesome. Do you have your minutes of fame? Ta-da! and
