24 hours ago
Tech debt was always meant to be avoided, but now it is becoming the dream. As we feel the need to move faster and faster, mistakes are made every day, and the mountain of debt grows. Engineers are being rehired to fix Techdebt and not build new product because the push to get to the market first is still prevalent – nothing else matters. If we continue at this rate, software development will no longer be a creative endeavour, but a cleaning exercise.
3 days ago
If you don’t know what the priority is, how do you know you’re doing the right thing? You don’t and as result, neither does your team.
4 days ago
Nothing defines new better than a new car smell. It evokes a feeling of something being yours for the first time. It has become the definition of the scent associated with new, so much so that we have cans of it we can buy (but they don’t evoke the same feeling). If your product can generate that level of memory, then you’re doing something right. If not, figure out what you’re missing and do it.
5 days ago
The default tool doesn’t do what you need it to do. It hasn’t been upgraded in 10 years, and now it’s not even a feature; it’s more like a hanger-on, and that’s about it. You can mock up and build something that much better in 30 minutes. You can give your users a better experience. You can get them excited to use your tool. That’s what building something better is about – getting people to see a new way of using something that they’ve been forced into for years and then wondering why they didn’t do this themselves in the
1 week ago
It seems odd: a Plan that moves you forward. But sometimes, it bears reminding – plans are built to move the team forward, to show progress, delivery, and success. They are meant to deliver. If your plan doesn’t move forward, what is it moving to?
