Where companies struggle in their adoption of Agile is that they implement it within a small area of the company where they learn to do it really well. They get good at it and they get into a rhythm of what they are doing. They have tweaked the idea of Agile to meet their needs and goals and they have a system that is working and moving products and code out the door. What they…
Yes, it does, there is bad code in the cloud, not all code, but a good amount. Because you can easily throw more “stuff” at it to make it more “elastic” and “spinning” up things makes it more performant. These tactics work in the short-term and get you out of a jam, but that’s all they are meant to be, if your code is performing badly, no amount of memory will ever make it run…
Try – What we are attempting to do. Catch – If what I was trying to do doesn’t work and it blows up, Wonder – Perhaps I should try this alternate path instead. It sounds nicer than Finally.
You have 8 eight hours to fix this issue that you know nothing about with minimal logging, maybe a screenshot, and 5 customers all complaining about similar issues but not really the core of the issue. Go. No one wants to work like that and yet we let it happen again and again and those that do it are proclaimed as heroes for saving the day. Here’s the hero I want – the one that…
I love the thrill coming out of a good meeting – one where a problem was discussed, a plan put in place, and the next steps laid out. It is the perfect definition for a meeting if ever there was one. Then there are the meetings to “talk”, where we schedule up the talk and take time from people’s day to have the talk. That is called a conversation, it doesn’t need to be scheduled,…