I’ve written before about the multitude of ways that teams end up failing themselves. In The Math of Mediocrity, I explored how we temper our expectations of excellence when our wildest ideas and imagination meet the molasses of reality. In...
Perhaps I’ve been swept up by the greater trend towards minimalism. There is of course the Tiny House movement which runs counter to decades of ever larger McMansions; rather then focusing on sheer volume, the Tiny House movement focuses on...
If you’re building Azure Functions, you generally have two options when it comes to implementing authentication and authorization: Use the App Service Authentication integration which is great if you are using one of the standard identity providers (Azure AD, Microsoft...
One of the lessons I’ve been mulling about the past few weeks is the importance of scope when delivering software. Delivery of software can be thought of as a balancing act between three buckets: Time – this is the schedule...
It may seem counter-intuitive to the old guard that change control can actually negatively affect the quality of software, but when implemented in such a way that it dramatically increases the cost and effort of making software improvements, it leads...
Professionally, almost nothing aggravates me more than the Math of Mediocrity. The only thing worse than observing failure based on the Math of Mediocrity is having to actively participate in it. Steve Jobs’ Parable of the Concept Car is a...