If you’ve ever spent months, long months, serious months – to finish a project. To get through all the work, the meetings, the politics, the back and forth, the bugs. To see people not use it, or to see the work tossed out, is hard to handle. You put your everything into it for nothing to happen. Sure you learned and gained knowledge, but no one using it, that’s tough. If you haven’t had this…
The Options. What they are, what’s good about them, what’s bad about them – maybe what the cost is? But more importantly, it’s your recommendation – what you think and why. Anyone can come up with options, but a recommendation, a direction, a path – that’s the real reason you’re doing this – because people want to see what you’ll do when given the reigns to lead and move forward with solving a problem. The…
What is the Problem that keeps you up at night? The answered question. What is the Problem you Need to Solve? (Not the one for your job, or school or for anyone else). What’s the problem, that you personally Need to Solve?
Video games are a great example of an industry that is always serving multiple audiences at the same time and needs both to survive. The existing users supported the game the first time and helped get it off the ground with early adoption and support. The new audience, who has never seen the game, but is interested in it and is wondering if they should invest their time in it. Both markets matter for the…
DLL Hell was a thing. When you get into the weeds it’s still there. Never assume everyone is and/or can be on the latest and greatest versions of hardware and software. Deprecate the interfaces, don’t break them. Prompt for the upgrade if you need it BEFORE the installation happens. Developers deserved simple lives too!