December 12, 2020
Your releases, your successful releases will always, always be wrapped into those two behaviours. Look back on the releases that went well and think back to all the activities you undertook and you will see they are rooted in these two behaviours. You might not have to think about them when starting a release (great), and if you do, that’s okay too. But know without either/or you have a long hill to climb.
December 11, 2020
I wrote about Architects in Code Your Way Up but felt the need to digress on the topic a little bit here in a recent post on Dev.to I’ve always found the title of Architect to be a little self-fulfilling, i.e., I want to be a “title” so give me a title that sounds cool and in software, I fear that the term of “Architect” has become one of those titles. The implementation varies across people, jobs and boundaries which serves as further proof to it being a self-generated title (which is a little scarier). If you’re writing code and
December 10, 2020
At the beginning, if you falter, it doesn’t quite matter, you haven’t established anything yet. You can restart and still be okay with things. In the middle, sure you might be in the early stages of Craptivity, and if you have to restart, it will hurt because you put in so much effort to get there. But in the end, when you are closing in on the streak, this close to hitting the record, about to make it happen. That’s when your fingers get jittery, that’s when you feel the adrenaline searching through. And that’s when you know you are
December 9, 2020
You can be a lot of things to some people (probably not a lot). Or you can be a few things to fewer people, but those things that you focus hard on, you can be really good at (scary good) and have the potential to make a greater impact in those people’s lives. Which would you prefer to be?
December 8, 2020
On a big initiative, where you have a lot of people reporting to you, where you have a big team and lots of money behind you it’s easy to be swayed into worrying what people are thinking and how they are viewing your progress. But just like with a small project, all that matters is the client. Nothing else.
