teamwork

You are a developer on a team going about your day, then, out of nowhere you find out there is an ongoing outage. This news flips the day from calm to frenzied in the blink of an eye. In this post, we will discuss some techniques to make the outage…

A friend and I recently started working on a little side project. It had been over a year since we last worked on anything together before starting this little adventure. The original idea for the project came from his wife and her love of reading…

For any software team, there are many customers. Some customers are external to the organization. Some customers are internal, such as the leadership team, marketing, and sales. The list seems endless at times. As a team member, you share all the…

Many of us technical folks are on teams with 3 maybe 4 or more different skill sets. Not all of which are technical in nature, some more people focused, others may focus on statistical analysis, perhaps skills that are focused on art and graphics. It…

I remember when I was first getting into the field of software development. Ready to soak up all the knowledge from my new colleagues and the challenges I was facing down. I was going to learn it all leaving nothing left on the table. I worked my…

When everyone was sent home in early 2020 my team, like many other teams, struggled to keep the communication going as it had been in the office. Initially, there was a thought the stay-at-home orders were going to be a short-term thing. The missing…