June 30, 2021
If everyone is using different apps to accomplish the same goal. Then no goal is being accomplished. No tool or app will ever be perfect, but they will be good enough. And good enough is what you need to ship. If you still don’t think it’s good enough and you continue to use multiple apps different then what everyone is using there is only one goal you are accomplishing. Holding your team back from what they really need to be doing.
June 29, 2021
This is the hardest question when trying to figure out the “what” of what goes into a release, feature, story. “What is it that we are trying to do?” “What is it that our customer needs us to do?” It’s not an easy question for the singular reason that the answer won’t always jive with what we have in our head, what we had already planned, what we were already focused on. But if you don’t ask, you’re not building what the customer needs, you’re making assumptions on you think they need based on what you want to do. Want
June 28, 2021
We are back for another season on Remotely Prepared where this season is focused on the biggest remote topic that everyone is fighting and/or thinking about. Work/life balance. What is it? What does it mean to you? How does it affect you? We’ve dabbled on the edge of it for the first three seasons, but this season, we are ripping off the band-aid and getting right down to it. Check out the trailer here.
June 27, 2021
If no one is talking, it doesn’t mean you are doing a good job. It means no one understands what you are talking about.
June 26, 2021
I let out a deep, heavy sigh whenever I’m stuck on a problem and the only resolution is to drop it and start all over again. The software developer in me dies a slow, silent death whenever I hear this. We have all this AI, all this Machine Learning, all these fancy tools and the best we have for changing licenses, is to drop and recreate? What technology are we missing to be able to enable this? Build configuration into your software, build adaptability. If you’re building in “drops”, might as well tell the customer to uninstall it and not
