Lesson 17: Internal Tools
I know you've heard the phrase "red-headed stepchild". It refers, of course, to the kid who gets ignored and neglected and who doesn't get a second helping of soup. But when it comes to red heads
Ain't Easy
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Lesson 16: Get Out Of The Building
GOOTB... ...It's like we aren't even trying with our acronyms anymore. We used to take pride in our wittiness, coming up with a clever abbreviated form of whatever we were trying to convey.
Lesson 15: Full-stack Developers
I recently read an article debating whether Superman or Spectre was more powerful. A poll was taken and an overwhelming amount of nerds like me voted in favor of Spectre. It makes sense.
Lesson 14: Data or Tada
Who doesn’t like a good magic trick? Every magic trick is essentially the same. The magician presents the audience with some ordinary thing, like an adult woman lying in a box. Then
Lesson 13: Just Say No
Dare I admit I’m old enough to remember the D.A.R.E. program. For those on the cusp between Millennial and Generation X, you will remember this as an elementary education
Lesson 12: Scope Creep
Creep is such an insulting word. I dare you to try and use the word creep in any of its parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective) with a positive connotation. “Do you take
Lesson 11: Making Progress
Elizabeth Holmes gets a bad rap. What did she do wrong? Well, in a nutshell, with no experience or expertise she convinced a bunch of stakeholders to pour billions into a vaporware product
Lesson 10: Scorecards
Remember baseball cards… …I do… …which puts me in an age bracket approaching the steep precipice of irrelevancy in software development. But this much I will tell you. If you never had a
Lesson 9: The CRY Principle
Programmers are smart. Product Managers are dumb…. …it’s a well-established fact within all the serious professional tech circles… …you know, the ones that revolve around programming memes. This is because Product Managers
Lesson 8: Roadmaps
When I was somewhat younger during the ancient period called pre-iPhonean, our family went on a vacation where we rented a Lincoln Town Car. Back then Hertz proudly offered a miraculous invention known
Lesson 7: Quality Assurance
If you’ve ever attended a rodeo, you know the highlight is the bull riding competition. The crowd greatly anticipates the moment when bull riders mount up on the back of an animal
Lesson 6: Steve Jobs
Despite being dead for some time now, Steve Jobs is very well alive in the Product community. Whether you are an Apple fan or not, you will rarely get through a day without