Making the Leap from Execution to Strategy
summary
Argues that moving from day-to-day development into strategy requires different skills not vague ambition and shows concrete wins: uses prototypes and documentation to persuade stakeholders, experiments with progressive web apps and writes a plain-English blog post, helps the RNLI and an F1 team with prototypes that win buy‑in, contributes to the open active standard and authors API case studies, and builds personal projects (a tea tracker and bin‑day notifier) to learn tech. Highlights meetings, identity change, loneliness and burnout as the real obstacles.
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chapters (32)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:07The Beginning
- 5:14Career Path
- 5:48SelfEmployment
- 6:01Progress through the ranks
- 6:11The right skills
- 6:46Stick stuff on walls
- 6:59Everybody is unique
- 8:07Focus
- 8:47Change
- 9:40Colour perks
- 9:55Development progression
- 10:43Digital transformation
- 11:28Personal challenges
- 11:54Meetings
- 13:09New Identity
- 14:16Developer snobbery
- 16:32Prioritize your focus
- 17:23Finding your place
- 18:07Being confident in your strengths
- 18:45Developing a developer mindset
- 22:36Practical examples
- 24:12Conscious shift
- 24:34Open Active
- 26:25Ten Thousand Words
- 27:01Show Dont Tell
- 28:43Summary
- 28:57Dont make a leap
- 29:38Stupid side projects
- 30:33MyFitnessPal
- 30:55Family Bath
- 31:26Web Notifications
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