2019-09-20: It’s always a people problem: Every glaringly obvious software architecture mistake, every coding style inconsistency, every weird choice of programming language or tool has a story to tell.
2019-09-19: More pixels are always better! For the first time, I have three monitors to work with:
2019-09-17: Caring about appearing strong, and being right, only proves your insecurity and lack of interpersonal skills. You are missing out on the deeper relationships, and better collaboration, that come with showing vulnerability, admitting your faults, revealing what you don‘t know.
2019-09-12: A single paragraph of documentation would have spared us many hours of software archaeology: This feature in the old system, what exactly does it do, and for what purpose? (I hope we‘ll do a better job of documenting the new system.)
2019-09-06: “When we see passionate people at work (at a chess tournament, a brainstorming session, writing a play or counseling), we have trouble imagining doing it for six hours in a row, never mind eight.” https://seths.blog/2019/09/two-kinds-of-9-to-5-job/
2019-08-29: That special form of „agile“ where developers work in sprints but users don‘t get to test the software for months, let alone use it.
2019-08-28: Today I learned about the difference between the ?: (shorthand ternary) and ?? (null coalescing) operators in #PHP: https://www.designcise.com/web/tutorial/whats-the-difference-between-null-coalescing-operator-and-ternary-operator-in-php
2019-08-28: Da kommt Arbeit auf uns zu: „Wir müssen Workflows und Abläufe synchronisieren: übergreifende Themenplanung, Planung für das Heft, tagesaktuelle Planung fürs Digitale, gemeinsame Textproduktion, Bild-Workflows, Dokumentation und Layout“ https://devspiegel.medium.com/ein-jahr-projekt-orange-was-wir-geschafft-haben-dc2cbcd58c4f
2019-08-28: Our #DAM system doesn‘t enforce metadata entry during upload because we have no time to waste in a „breaking news“ situation. Of course this means more work later – and metadata is not only missing for „breaking news“ photos…
2019-08-25: „When you pull someone away for one day to fix a bug or help a different team, you don’t just lose a day. You lose the momentum they built up and the time it will take to gain it back. Losing the wrong hour can kill a day. Losing a day can kill a week.“ https://basecamp.com/shapeup/2.2-chapter-08
2019-08-25: „Two-week cycles are extremely costly due to the planning overhead. The amount of work you get out of two weeks isn’t worth the collective hours around the table to ‚sprint plan‘ or the opportunity cost of breaking everyone’s momentum to re-group.“ https://basecamp.com/shapeup/2.2-chapter-08
2019-08-24: “Anybody can suggest expensive and complicated solutions. It takes work and design insight to get to a simple idea that fits in a small time box.” https://basecamp.com/shapeup/1.5-chapter-06#ingredient-2-appetite
2019-08-23: Project management as information management: a seemingly infinite loop of distributing and gathering information (from users, managers, vendors, IT) and turning it into documents (requirements, specs, tickets, plans, status updates, meeting notes)
2019-08-22: In case you didn’t know: Using a single unlicensed image online over a couple of years can cost as much as buying and implementing a mid-sized #DAM system. #ROI
2019-08-22: Me: “How do I call this Web service?” Dev: “Here’s the Javadoc.” Me: “How *exactly* do I call this Web service, do you have a curl example? The Javadoc documents nothing except parameter names and types – what information am I to provide?”
2019-08-17: Vielleicht sind iFrames nicht “der heilige Gral”, aber ein guter Artikel: https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/iframes-der-heilige-Gral-bei-verteilten-Webanwendungen-4496075.html
2019-08-15: This excellent blog post by @juantreminio helped a lot on my journey to understanding Docker – now my containers run on Linux as well, not just on my Mac: https://jtreminio.com/blog/running-docker-containers-as-current-host-user/
2019-08-14: Why spend so much time discussing other people‘s faults? I‘m more interested in what I‘m doing wrong – because that‘s what I can change.
2019-08-09: I’m the bottleneck… What am I doing wrong when developers implement features I specified faster than I can write new specs?
2019-08-06: My favorite new feature in today’s @woodwingsoft Elvis #DAM 6.35 release: “Upload and link”
2019-07-12: “Publishers with a high rate of credit metadata have a CMS designed to keep them “alive” (that is, not to delete them). Very few are in this case: @SPIEGELONLINE is the best example.” – @imatag https://www.imatag.com/blog/state-of-image-metadata-in-news-sites-2019-update
2019-07-12: „It’s important to keep a cool manner and a bit of a poker face. We don’t want to shut down an idea that we don’t understand. On the other hand, showing too much enthusiasm right away can set expectations that this thing is going to happen.“ https://basecamp.com/shapeup/1.2-chapter-03
2019-07-11: Family tech support: Replaced a slow, crappy, noisy Windows laptop with a (used, relatively cheap) Mac mini (with SSD). It’s like night and day: Fast, silent, safe, beautiful.
2019-07-10: “We’re not into waterfall or agile or scrum. We don’t line walls with Post-it notes. We don’t do daily stand ups, design sprints, development sprints. No backlogs, no Kanban…” I can’t wait to read it all. Thanks for making the book available for free! https://basecamp.com/shapeup
2019-07-05: „Erzählt den Menschen, wie mühsam Innovationen wirklich entstehen, wie weh Veränderungen tun können. Erzählt den Leuten, dass es Arbeit ist.“ https://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/artikel/digitalisierung-macht-den-leuten-nichts-vor-a-1275558.html