Stress Kills Solutions: Stay Cool, Debug Smarter
You fix a bug, and then 3 more appear.
It’s like whack a mole, but without the fun of being in an arcade.
You panic. You are stressed.
How in the world did these other bugs creep in? The client is going to be pissed. Your stakeholders are going to demand answers.
You can panic, but in the end, you still have to solve it. Yes, you need the technical skills to do this, but you also need the right mindset. Your lifted emotional intelligence will be one of your best assets in thinking clearly and getting to the bottom of it.
Don’t Let the Bugs Break You: Mastering the Calm Reset
I was on a project where the output product miserably failed. We were testing it, and it was buggy—buggy for us as the development team and the stakeholders who would be using it in their daily lives. We were all unhappy.
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