There are products that had a stronger leg up to become a SLACK competitor or the SLACK. The had the foundation, the infrastructure, and the people to make it happen. But if you look at many of these applications, they were either; High-Investment – trying it out wasn’t an easy sell, you needed to invest time and money to make it happens. Closed Loops – Download software, have a big crazy profile of useless information…

I like running, I like running a lot – but like any person, I know I can’t run forever. As much as I would like, my legs will get tired and it will become more about pain management than progress. Maybe I haven’t trained hard enough, built up enough endurance or don’t have the will to keep going. The same thing happens on projects – sure you can keep running and pushing and running and…

We’re moving things around. The spot I had previously set aside that received the optimal wifi signal, had room for me lay out papers on, a window and a comfortable chair is now gone. I haven’t been able to figure out why it’s been hard to write anything the last week – my spot is gone, lack of ideas , perhaps my motivation seemed to drop off a bit – any or all of the…

Remember when you were a coding machine?  When you could take a requirement, design it in your head and simply start coding like the hero/heroine that you are? When your day was 110% coding and nothing else?  No meetings, no scrums, no design reviews, no nothing. Just pure coding bliss. Why is the act of coding, that as developers,  let us reminisce about the good old days – the best releases we ever did, the…

What takes more time? Getting started on a new project or jumping into a project you have been working on for the last few weeks? In the former, you don’t know; How long is it going to take? How hard is it going to be? Who will you need to help you finish it? When will you finish it? How many struggles will you have to go through? What, if any, other obstacles will be…