November 22, 2024
12 minute read
Ah, the RAID log—Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies. To a bright-eyed project manager, it’s a shining beacon of order. To the rest of us? It’s corporate Mad Libs: half-blind guesses, blame-shifting masterpieces, and ominous warnings with no context. To understand what to make of the whole charade I’ve spent some...
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October 7, 2024
8 minute read
In the manner of choosing the colour to paint the bikeshed, the decision of whether to create a ticket for every single tiny commit, no matter whether it’s a giant feature or the tiniest whitespace cleanup in the readme file continues to consume countless hours. This question is not really...
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September 12, 2024
7 minute read
Sometimes I see people create work items / jira tickets / user- stories that if they were implemented and merged in to the codebase would leave the system in a half-finished state, either broken or inconsistent. The problem with non-shippable tickets This to me is instinctively a “bad thing”, however...
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