July 10, 2019
When you write your best code, you take a step back and admire it. You want to show it off to everyone in attendance and show them how well it runs. You want to pull the plug while it’s running and watch it keep humming along. You want to transfer operations to another region to show how easily it flips over. Code is Art, not the production of a Factory.
July 9, 2019
Or… You don’t understand. You don’t get get it. We can’t do it that way. That’s not how it’s supposed to be done. Everyone else is doing it this way. We don’t have time for that. We can’t just change what we’re doing. All things said before amazing works of art were created.
July 8, 2019
Who wants to go back to square one on your project when you are so closed to the finish line? The bug that was just found will prevent any customer from upgrading. Or it will erase their data. Or support will not be able to diagnose issues as they did before. Take your pick, ITS THAT BUG, the one that you have a meeting about to discuss with everyone in the room and is currently keeping you up at night. And it’s forcing you to go back into the core to fix it and subsequently revalidate all of your development
July 3, 2019
That whole, finding a great team to work with and surrounding yourself with great people thing. You don’t need to wait for it to happen, you don’t need to let someone choose for you. You can buy someone a coffee. You can join a user group. You can start your own online community. You can make your own league or start your own team. It doesn’t just apply to your work, it applies to everything and anyone around you. It’s all up to you and if you are able to make that decision early on in your life that the
June 28, 2019
This is the question you need to ask yourself when it comes to your team. Who does the heavy lifting when it comes to everything you are doing; Coding Team building Leading Scheduling Managing Planning Testing Requirements All of it and of it – what is the heavy lifting in your profession? In your daily grind, what is it that constitutes your heavy lifting? Are you doing it? Who on your team is doing it? Can more than person do it? Why aren’t they sharing it? If you are the one doing all of the heavy lifting, then you are
