You might have noticed no emails coming through in the last month for new posts. Google pulled a fast one with their SPAM engine sending many of these to the trash and I decided it was time to upgrade to something that little more powerful (and possibly more poetic) – Mailchimp. Like any upgrade, there are always hits and misses in trying to figure things out and get it all to work. Hopefully I figured…
It doesn’t matter how big your truck. It doesn’t matter what kind of drive train you have. It doesn’t matter how many bells and whistles you have. It doesn’t matter who you call with their fancy tow truck with the promise to get you out. It doesn’t matter what association you belong to. It doesn’t matter how much prep you’ve done to get the job done. Sometimes it simply comes down to using the simplest…
It’s tempting to redo a project that is similar to what you just built in the same way, to copy, paste and update. It’s tempting to pass this on as something new because it looks a little different on the outside but is the same on the inside. It’s safer to do things the way they were done before because that worked then and should work now. It’s easier to not take any risks because…
Here’s how Agile get’s a bad rap… We don’t have to plan.We don’t have to think about what we want to do.We don’t have to write anything down.We don’t have to look past the current sprint.We don’t have to be worried about what we deliver.We can change what we are doing and who is doing it every day.We don’t need to worry about what we deliver. All wrong, all the time. Agile isn’t a reason…
When working with a new platform or trying to demo something to a customer there are two elements that will make your software demo sing; Customizing it to their industry, their business, their needs.Showing them data of what can happen over a period of time. And yet, we never want to do this work. A few weeks ago, I was working on a customer demo and wanted to populate the system with some data to…