Lately, I’ve been working on a few projects where I find we are doing the same things over and over again that we have done for years. Security implementations that are either overtly cumbersome or miss out on base security role implementation requirements End to End trace logging through back-end systems. Performance Injection for how bad something is going without having to rebuild the code each time Distribution of Notifications Frameworks that scale as they…
There comes a time in every developer’s life when they realize they need to write better tests. Whether it’s a console, web, or unit test, they need to write better tests. If you’re at this point, here are some elements that are important to writing great tests; They should be objective – the result is the result is the result – there is no complex interpretation. They should be measurable – whether they do it…
Never have been, never will be. We keep trying to solve them with technology, but they aren’t. The problem with meetings is that we all have different expectations of what they should and should not be, who should be invited, when they should begin, what their value is, and what should happen before and/or after them to make them a success and whether they should be on a recurring basis or not. But we don’t…
It is easy to organize something for ourselves. We know ourselves inside and out and can respond to simple changes without even thinking about it. It’s akin to being a passenger on a bumpy road where the driver is swerving to avoid the bumps and potholes – they know what’s coming, they are processing actions and ready for them. But you’re not and you’re dealing with them as they come. Your team is the passenger…
What will give your team the biggest impact today? What will make the biggest difference to what they are working on today? What will result in fewer calls coming into your support queue today? What will save developers the most time in building code? What will change how you do things? Focus on that, we all need something big to show progress against.