Articles for category: Delivery

August 16, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Morning Routine

The morning routine is the 15 – 30 minutes of your day that you need to set yourself up for success. Breakfast on the run? Reading? Doing a puzzle? Writing down the days tasks? Going for a walk? Whatever it is, it’s that time, where you set yourself up for success for the day you have in front of you. If you hit your routine each day, it’s been a great day.

Your Archnemesis

We all have them, and they aren’t people – it’s the one thing that stops you in your tracks and frustrates you to no end. For me it’s TLS and certificates, it’s a pain, I’ve tried learning it over and over again.  I have bashed my head against the table on this subject over and over again.  I secretly hope it is replaced by something much simpler – i.e., SECURITY_ON and SECURITY_OFF Other people get them, they are my kryptonite. We all have our kryptonite, our nemesis, the best thing to do is to find people who get it so

The User’s Path

If you’re building tools for your users to use. It would be important to ask them… How are they going to use it? What will make them wake up every day and use it? Why do they need to have this? How will it save them time and why? All these questions are about your users and what they need from it.  We sometimes think we have the answers, but we often don’t. We have our perception of the answers, but those are just that, perceptions, not the answers themselves.

August 4, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Goal of your Code Repository

We don’t often ourselves this question, but it is a valid one. Is it a dumping ground? Is there a structure to it? Do you want to be able to deploy to a new environment with a script? Does each team need a sandbox? Do you want teams to have sandboxes? How long will it live? All these (and many more) are questions you should ask when setting up your repository that go beyond “New Repository…”