February 28, 2022
Everything. Testing is everything. If you aren’t testing then you aren’t shipping. Consider that the next time you are trying to squeeze your QA team down from four months to three months to two weeks in the hope that “everything works”. Hint: It won’t, but that’s why we test.
February 27, 2022
Grunt work never has and never will go away. It will always be there, no matter your role, it will exist, in different forms to be sure. Embrace it, learn from it, figure out how to automate it, and do something with it. From grunt work comes our great ideas for what we might work on next.
February 26, 2022
I’m a big fan of doing demos on the fly. Fire up the compiler, and show people what you’ve done. They are meant to be exciting, exhilarating and the best forum in the world to get feedback on how you are doing. Whether you plan it or not, you should always show up ready to go. If you aren’t ready to go, push it off, an hour, a day (no more than a day) but deliver it. Tell the story of what you are building, show the value of what you’ve created. If you need to plan it out, go
February 25, 2022
When we own something, it becomes a part of us and we want to see it succeed. It can be something as simple as a bug, a task, or any other kind of ticket. Until it’s in our name though, it’s just a thing that has to be done and anyone on the team can do it. But the moment your name gets added to it, now it’s yours, now it’s something. Now it can be anything and everything you wish for it. Because now it is yours to work on.
February 24, 2022
Too many. Too many lurking around. Too many that I don’t log into but get random texts or emails from. Too many need to be cleaned up. Too many that I don’t even know still exist. Spring cleaning is coming early.
