August 9, 2018
So you probably shouldn’t be commenting on all that is wrong with it. You weren’t there for the late nights. For the stress-filled mornings. For the lack of documentation. For the tight-timelines. For the never listening customer. For the demos that had to be delivered. For the hotfixes and all the patches. But you’re here now. So take a second to check in on what you weren’t there for, before passing judgment.
August 8, 2018
The Happy Scenario gets a bad rap because it’s easy, it does the bare minimum and the customer doesn’t really want it. Who would want to buy it? No one… and that’s the point. The Happy Scenario isn’t for the customer, it’s for the developer who’s trying to get that new library up and running, it’s for the QA tester who’s trying to validate their first automation test case or maybe it’s for the Product Manager who’s trying to validate their first use case to get buy-in to move forward with the project? It’s for you. It’s for you to get
August 7, 2018
The #1 problem with Code Reviews isn’t whether the standard is followed, what syntax is used or when you start doing them with your team. Whatever you pick (and when) will work – it will. The problem is the follow through. We start with lofty expectations of all that we’ll accomplish, we turn on all the switches and for a time things start to go well – code starts to get reviewed – questions are answered. But over time, they lose their lustre That last minute fix that has to go through by Senior So and So has to get
August 6, 2018
I’ve gone through three versions of Rambli over the past 3 – 4 years. Who knows maybe this will be the one. After having completed a marketing course (whole other post, but I highly recommend it) – I decided to give things a facelift that boiled it down to all the things Rambli is; It’s about Delivery, Drive, Initiative, Leadership, and Growth. It’s about doing it without all the extra fluff. There is no magic to picking a new template for your site, I liken it to buying a new pair of jeans – what looks good, what fits and
August 3, 2018
Every year, we wait for the mythical months of summer to come around so we can finally have our vacation. False. The weather might be better (and the only one who can really say whether it is, is you) but you can take a vacation at any time. Turning off your phone – that’s a vacation. Taking a drive to the middle of nowhere and eating your lunch in solitude – that’s a vacation. Flying somewhere for the weekend where the weather meets your lofty standards – that’s a vacation. But better than any vacation, is an Adventure (and we
