Guess what – MicroServices is no longer a big thing, Monoliths are back in the fold and soon n-tier will be the next big thing once again. While we are at, let’s think about what is the best for configuration files – registry settings, key vaults, database, json or .config files. There can only be one way that is right correct? I have a preferred architecture I like to go to every time I’m designing…
Meeting with people. Negotiating requirements back and forth. Deciding which languages and frameworks to use and why. Investigating customer problems you’ve never seen before. Working with Sales on features that aren’t there. Figuring out new UI/UX schemas. Organizing your work. All of the above is much harder to do than writing the code that comes from these interactions. Don’t underestimate the value of sitting down with someone to understand their point of view and their…
You can’t learn them all. You might be able to learn a bunch, but you would never be able to learn all of them and be good at all of them. Specialize in some, don’t master all.
The biggest remote challenge isn’t about what your office setup is, what your meetings look like, the lunchtime pub sessions, how many coffee meetings you have in a day, or what entrance music you are playing. It’s about turning up every day and making sure it’s the best day for everyone on your team. Things go wrong because of Apathy, we let them drag out more when we are remote, when we are in person,…
If you are not taking into account all the other work your team is doing, you are setting an unrealistic expectation of delivery for what your team is working on. If the work they are doing is not accounted for in what they see, then they will feel stressed, then burnt out by all that is on their plate. Sprint Capacities only work when your team is 100% only doing development work, as soon as…