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It Doesn’t Work the Way I Thought
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Forcing the Seat at the Table
3 days ago
TechDebt is becoming the Dream
4 days ago
We used to be Organized?
5 days ago
What’s the Priority?
6 days ago
The New Car Smell
7 days ago
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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Great, figure out another way to make it work. This has been the problem that programmers and developers have been faced with for years and years on end. API is more limited than they thought. Overuse and you get throttled. Data is hoarded instead of shared. Capabilities are limited without lots of workarounds. Great, it doesn’t work the way you thought; the absolutely amazing part of your journey starts to happen. Go make it work the way you thought. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and …
Forcing the Seat at the Table
Greg Thomas
You’re at the right spot, but maybe you’re not at the table yet. You’re doing all the right things to earn a spot, but for some reason have not been formally invited. You’re probably contributing more than the people who are there and generating more value than anyone wants to realize. But still no seat at the table. At this point, you have two options; Forcing your seat is easy: I have this role, I should be there, give me a seat. Setting your own table is harder; you have to create the table, you have to sit at it, …
TechDebt is becoming the Dream
Greg Thomas
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 …
Plan Forward
It seems odd: a Plan that moves you forward. But sometimes, it bears reminding – plans are built to move the team forward, to show progress, delivery, and success. They are meant to deliver. If your plan doesn’t move forward, what is it moving to? 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.
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Setting the AI Foundations
If you’re running your business from Notepad, AI won’t help much. Maybe if you had thousands of text files to comb through, it could provide an analysis and give you some details on what is what. But would you want to keep running your business that way? Would you want to, inefficiently, ask AI to parse through thousands of text files of data on a daily basis, just to “figure out” what to do? At some point, the AI is going to come back and say, “there is a better way to do this”. So why not do that better …
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 …