November 11, 2024
The heavy work doesn’t lift itself. It can’t happen without you pushing up against it, nudging it, moving it, and eventually lifting it. If everyone could do it, everyone would be doing the heavy lifting, but everyone can’t. You can fed up with the heavy work, frustrated, angry, and ticked off at it. You can yell and scream at it and see how that goes. Or you can figure it out, find a solution, move forward and past it.
November 7, 2024
Another set of SPAMMY emails I receive. “Can I have a moment?” Well if we’ve never met, and you emailed me out of the middle of nowhere (honestly I have no idea where you live, for all I know you could be on a space shuttle), chances are no we can’t have a moment? Because a moment, that word, means something treasured, something of value, some level of trust that has built up over time that I give to people who have earned it and that I get back from people where I have earned it with them. You can
November 6, 2024
Do you need to be online? Seriously, do you need to be on Teams all day long? Every now and again when I have a lot of work to do and no need to meet anyone, I go into the Cave. The Cave is where email and messaging is shut off, you go there, you do work and you come out with work done. To go into the cave the following must be true; You answer no emails, no messages, no meetings – that is the importance of the cave. You go into the problem with a cave, you come
November 4, 2024
The same development problems, happen irrespective of the languages and platform you use; Delivery schedules Ticket Management Code Re-use Technical Debt API versioning Branching strategies Templates and Re-Use Data Access When we get past those problems, then the game will change.
October 28, 2024
Triage – address the immediate problem, stabilize, stop the bleeding, redirect, and move on. Full Serve – someone does it for you, all of it, end to end, your job is to ask for it and it is done. Who you start with, is who you end with. Self-serve – you do it yourself, end to end, you’re on your own. If you have a problem, you don’t ask for help, you use the tools provided to solve it on your own. You can either triage your services, provide full services for your customers to take care of them, or
