I like to think of the old adage of hand-offs as being a very simple one. Imagine the person you are handing off your work to is you. How well will you write your comments? How much information will you fill out in the description of the story? Will you give them access to the information in the documents? How many barriers will you put in place? Start with what you want to receive, than…
None really. We think all the levels matter, we think being at the uppermost level matters because that is where we will do our best work. But it’s not, our best work is what we do, at the level we are in that makes that level something more, makes it bigger, makes it better, and changes the level for whoever comes next. The level is a starting point, from there on in, it’s up to…
I love meeting new people and hearing about their hacks to productivity. My favourite part about chatting with Stefan Zavalin was that you don’t start going 8 hours with a Standing Desk on Day One – you do a little each day and keep building on that success. It sounds like common sense and it’s the reminder we need. The full episode is here.
The key to a good tweak is simple, do it at the right time and don’t blow up what exists. Switching tires that you have a hunch might do better on the last lap – good tweak. Wanting to replace the engine on the last lap – bad tweak. The key is doing it at the right time and not putting yourself into such a hole that you can’t recover if it doesn’t work it…
I’ve been on four projects in the last year that all had issues with Timezones, user locales, UTC, and everything else in between that relates to time and date calculations. Timezones are complex, but rarely do we deal with them at the beginning. Instead we deal with them when the first issue rolls in and then we have patch or hack the implementation because to fix them in the source would require cataclysmic changes that…