October 24, 2021
Is that everyone is on the same page. You can’t go beyond that. If you have a full day planned and no one can get past that initial concept, don’t go further, you can’t go further, there is no point in going further because no one agrees where they should be going to. The goal is to figure out a plan for X and if you don’t know X, there is no point in moving towards something that is definitely not X.
October 18, 2021
I don’t think “anyone” wants to rewrite their code (or someone else’s for that matter). But sometimes you have to because whatever it is that is being asked of you cannot scale in what you have built. That’s the Software game, sometimes you need to rebuild it and start from scratch. Housing and construction are often compared to building software with many of the same phrases being interchangeable. The same applies to a house, if the changes are so significant that the entire house is liable to change or the current foundation cannot support it, you guessed it – time
October 16, 2021
We just finished Canadian Thanksgiving this past weekend and like many people, I was stuffed. It made me think of the last time my brain was stuffed to capacity, overloading and not able to take on anything else. When was the last time for you?
October 9, 2021
You don’t need the title. You never needed it before, so why are you waiting for it now? If it’s the title that matters, give it to yourself. If that’s what you need to lead your team, give yourself the best title you can think of, print it up, and put it on your desk. We’re all home now, who’s going to see it? Take it a step further and make a fancy name card and put it on your desk – forget gold on black, go platinum on diamond so it really stands out and catches the light when
October 5, 2021
Yesterday Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram all took a powder on a global scale. When I went to Facebook, it was a 404, when I went to Instagram, I had what last loaded with a cute message saying it can’t load new items, but all my old ones were cached so I could go check them out. I didn’t bother with WhatsApp. The question isn’t about which one handled it better, which was more graceful or did a better job of keeping their customers up to date as to what was happening. The question is what will your app do on
