#WhyShaiWhy Episode 46: Tech Debt – Adjacent To Evil
There are only a few really diabolical failures in software development. Allowing your technical debt to destroy all your future development efforts is one of them.
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#WhyShaiWhy Episode 45: Why Change is so Difficult
#WhyShaiWhy Episode 45 talks about how our brain and emotional responses try their best to halt change. After all, in routine we often find peace, right?
#WhyShaiWhy Episode 44: Why Agile is Not Reactionary
Too many people attach their own ideas of Agile to the methodology. Today I outline one incident that had disastrous consequences purely because of semantics of language
#WhyShaiWhy Episode 43: Your project starts when it finishes
#WhyShaiWhy Episode 43 has landed! Projects are funny things – they put artificial boundaries around things that are changing and evolving (like everything does). Here’s the thing though, your project starts when your project finishes!
#WhyShaiWhy Episode 42: Why #NotMyDebt affects you
Our episode this week looks at Australia’s latest governmental IT related bungle. Again, really? Well it’s not exactly Centrelink’s fault… #NotMyDebt
#WhyShaiWhy Episode 41: Don’t work with animals or children
Don’t work with animals or children. It might not be fair, but this is what they think about us.
#WhyShaiWhy Episode 40: Calculate ROI with TIM
Tech professionals shudder at the thought of writing business cases to get a project going. On the flip side, we also suck at seeing whether our projects are meeting its stated goals. Here’s one way to do exactly those things:
#WhyShaiWhy Episode 39: Think business…Then think tech
#WhyShaiWhy Episode 39 is here. It’s our last video from 2016 that talks about how technology is really not our primary objective, business goals are – and if you try without a business goal in mind, you’ll fail.
#WhyShaiWhy Episode 38: How to know what to read
Ever read something that didn’t quite seem right? Every relayed ‘facts’ that you’re unsure of? Uh-huh, me too.