4 Ways to Energize your Software Team

6 min readFeb 18

This past week, the Spring Data team had a face-to-face meeting. And it was fan-TASTIC! I had entered the meeting with sort of an average-to-below average feeling and left feeling energized, excited, and with a stronger sense of purpose than I had felt in a while.

So what happened? Did our team leader tell jokes? Did we spend the whole time telling war stories of past and present work life? Did our team manager promise us a rich bounty of double bonus pay and equity grants?

No.

Written by Greg L. Turnquist

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Developer on the Spring team and the host of Spring Boot Learning at https://youtube.com/@SpringBootLearning and author of best selling Learning Spring Boot.

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