Tell me when this has worked for everyone involved? If it’s something simple, like the background of the page, sure, figure it out as we go. If it’s something more complex, like the vision of a new project or the upcoming of a release. Nothing is more demoralizing to your team then hearing – “we’ll figure it out as we go” when they are about to jump into a new project. There is a time…
A new feature. A fix to an old bug. An idea for something new that you want to see whether there is some love from the market to keep it going? A direction you never thought of. A new platform of support. What should never be in a preview? Making your application harder to use then it was before. Putting your users through 5 clicks to accomplish a task that used to be done in…
When delivering work for a company, you are a part of the cog, you are a piece of the delivery, you are a component of what someone is up at the front of the room with powerpoint in hand where they might call you out expand on a topic. When you are delivering for yourself, you are the engine, you are living the topic and you are calling yourself out each and every day. Want…
I track all of my blog ideas in Trello, mainly because I can use it from any device and if I have a thought on the spur of a moment, I can easily add a card and move forward with it. I’ve had this one topic of coding being akin to drawing for a long time. For the past 4 years I’ve been dabbling in learning to draw (or re-learning). I didn’t start from any…
When someone says – “I want a bag of chips” – and you go to the store and return with a bag of chips, you are invariably destined to get the ill-fated response of – “Those aren’t the kind I wanted.” Such is life in any request for software. I want it to be blue. (But really, only in the bottom right corner). We need to be agile. (But we don’t want to change what…