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TechDebt is becoming the Dream
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We used to be Organized?
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What’s the Priority?
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The New Car Smell
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Build Something Better
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The Impact of a SWOT Analysis
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The Skills You Need
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Plan Forward
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Setting the AI Foundations
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The Frenetic Developer
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. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback …
2 days ago
We used to be Organized?
Greg Thomas
We used to be organized, now we hope pointing an AI agent at our work is going to resolve the issue. It won’t. That’s not how it works. You need some base level of organization and standards to make it work. Also, have you noticed how organized teams are able to adopt AI faster? Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
What’s the Priority?
Greg Thomas
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. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
The Frenetic Developer
Fast, energetic, and Wild in an Uncontrolled way – that is Frenetic. It sounds like a great word, but when I think of it, I think of rubber balls bouncing off the wall in a completely uncoordinated fashion. It looks like lots is getting done; it feels like process, but what it is is just movement with no goal directed from it. There is no point in trying to “Out-Prompt” someone; there is no value, there is no purpose. With AI and immediate development, we’re moving, not inching, but full on moving, towards a continued world of Frenetic Development where …
2 weeks ago
Who Attends the Meeting?
Who do you really, truly need at that next meeting? Who do you not need? I’m sure lots of people want to be at your meeting, but do they need to be there. If they don’t need to be there, don’t invite them. We’re past the era of “they might need to hear something”, there is a new era beginning and starts with need and value. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
Loss of Flow
Three years ago, all you could find were blogs and blogs, books, podcasts, everything and anything that would help you achieve Flow. The zen state where you are in full-throttle mode, accomplishing anything and everything. Now, today, we couldn’t care less – AI will do it for me if I don’t get into Flow or someone else on my team. Interrupt me 17 times a day, pile on more and more interactions, as many as you want, because in between I’ll send out a prompt for AI to do some more stuff for me. And what you’ll end up with …