Here is the question we are all asking ourselves daily now that our calendars are littered with them – do we need this meeting. Worse – when we leave the meeting and have the answer – “we didn’t need that meeting”. Here is how I’m trying to break up my meeting schedule these days to get back the time to do work; Is there a problem/goal in mind that we are trying to solve? Yes,…
When joining a new team the best way to make an impact is to volunteer for something. Anything. Can I test bugs? Can I fix some bugs? Can I review your code? Can I write some docs? These are the grunt work tasks. When Grunt Work doesn’t gets done it manifests into heaping loads of technical debt. Technical debt costs your team in the longrun. So if you’re looking to make an impact – pick…
I’ve ramped up my technical expertise in the past few months as I delved into the wonderful world of podcast editing for the Remotely Prepared Podcast. I enjoy doing the editing because similar to blogging and everything else, it makes me take a step back to listen to what I’m saying and find my voice in what I’m trying to do. I also get a number of ideas from that deeper thinking of things I…
The hidden underbelly of software development is translating what you write into something that someone understands. Someone that has no idea what you have written. And they can’t read your code. And even if they could read your code, they don’t want to because they don’t code. Enter logs and stacktraces which has given rise to one of my most favourite and longest-running memes ever. It is crystal clear, in all it’s glory. A developer…
There is nothing worse than having a train of thought in a meeting that you are trying desperately to get through only to have someone interrupt and say any of the following; One second, there is someone at the door.I can’t hear you, can you hear me?I couldn’t hear that last part.Hold on, my eggs are burning Such is the world of online meetings (and that last one is legit, happened in a meeting). We…