Teams should be treated as an extension to oneself, never an unit that should be treated as a resource
When you are not able to life weights at a gym, what do you do? Typically people go back, take rest, find what makes them stronger and eat that food; reduce the weights and slowly work their way up…...
4 Years Ago
Lost art of effective meetings
The biggest killer of developer time is meetings, it is a double whammy when it is run by people who do not know how to run it or how to finish it. So often a meeting eats up as much as the 25% of …...
4 Years Ago
Kludge driven development
In the last few years I see an overall increase in the busyness of people around in all professions. Everyone keeps telling about how busy they are; always behind tight deadlines and impossible to …...
5 Years Ago
When everything is a priority
There was a time when learning css one of my friends told me a clever hack, use the ‘!important’ flag which will override all the other precedences. It was a boon for me when deadline w…...
5 Years Ago
The whole should be greater than the sum of the parts
Too often I run into people who are way too concerned about velocity in software development and do a lot of math jugglery to make a plan look great to them and their bosses. The task breakdown in …...
5 Years Ago
Do not erase
I was very surprised to note that in paper based offices there was nothing like erase a mistake or throw out the original, it was always an append over the previous ones. Be it land records, mark s…...
5 Years Ago
