January 1, 2025
It’s here, it’s finally here, we’ve waited all year for it. And now it is here. The calendar rolled over. Time to begin anew and move forward with our hopes and dreams. Or, and most importantly, keep going on the projects you started in 2024, don’t shelve them for the shiny and bright, keep pushing through.
December 31, 2024
That’s awesome. Now why are you building a calculator? What does your calculator do differently than the one that currently ships with Windows? Nothing? It does exactly what the current Windows calculator does. It doesn’t do anything different. Feeding AI the requirements for an app that has existed since 1980 isn’t magic. Sure AI might do it faster, but when was the last time you bundled your app with a calculator? I recently did a project with a new group where I gave them an assignment, and walked them through the scoring but ended it with – you can receive
December 29, 2024
Teams grow. Products get more complicated. Process encroaches. Security protocols enter the fray. You’re past Minimum Viable Product. Now it’s about growth, security, and maintaining delivery timelines and schedules. But never leave the small business mindset that you had and that got you there – think small, work with what you have, deliver big.
December 28, 2024
Want to know which option is best? Clear your head of all the distractions. Want to know whether you should take your job? Break it down to the two jobs and clear your head of all other offers. Not sure what platform works best for you? Outline a few tests, measure against those tests, clear out the what-ifs, and move on. Adding more criteria, more reasons, more questions, more options, doesn’t help us get to the right solution we are pushing towards. They might all be valid, but at some point in the decision-making process, you have to go with
December 24, 2024
I write this knowing I am out there shopping right now. I wish this wasn’t true but it invariably is. Today is the last day, you waited until the last possible moment. And now you’re frazzled and have to hustle to get it done. Calm down, breathe, go get it, there are lots of hours in the day.
