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January 2015

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I’ve worked on a lot of releases that have come down the wire.  Not always a great trend, but in what I do, it can happen.  However, the best part when it happens, is when you have a team with you, you’re all in it together, it’s late, you’re trying to close the last bug, run the last test, give it one more shot.  I’ve been in these situations as the jr developer, the tech…

I know this is one of those topics out there that people might go – “oh great another blog about letting people fail and everyone being happy and unicorns and rainbows and let’s hold hands and save the world, etc, etc, etc…”.  And to some extent it might be, to some extend it might not. One of, if not the hardest part about managing/leading a team is giving your team the opportunity to fail because at some…

I hate this phrase – “It’s a living document, it will never be completed, it will live on and on, we will be in the ground and yet this document will continue to live on”.  Okay the last bit might have been exaggerated a bit, but you get the gist of where I’m going with this. Can someone show me a document that is dead? Probably not, because we don’t exactly label documents as dead…