There is always that point in any project where it fell over. The hard part is realizing where you were when it fell over and what you could have done differently. The even harder part is wanting to find this point so you can make a difference on your next project (because who wants to revisit old pains)?
In every problem you are working on, there are always a number of What Ifs to figure out – after all, it’s a problem – that you don’t know how to solve. But if you give into each and every what if that comes up, you’ll never get to solve the problem and will be left drowning in an innumerable setup of What Ifs for life. Isolate the problem, focus on the immediate, save the…
When doing Performance work, the first place you always need to start with is knowing your baseline. If you don’t know your baseline, you will not know what tools to build, what tests to run, and where to move forward to. How do you hit your baseline? You send it traffic, then you up, measure it, if it’s still working, up it some more. You keep upping it until it falls over and then you…
They say all gains are meant to be incremental except when you hit that “whoa” moment. Where it finally connects, where you finally break through, where everything completely comes together. At that point it no longer feels like an incremental gain, it feels monumental, it feels huge, it feels like you didn’t just climb up the mountain, but rather ran up it and took a flying leap off of it. But without those small investments,…
This was the idea behind Agile when it was introduced (written out better than I ever could). But how often do you revisit each one to see how you are doing and where you are with each one? How many of these “steps” have you taken? Where are you in each one? It’s more than a Sprint but less than a project. It’s a change that doesn’t happen overnight. When I work with teams that…