MVP, happy path, test coverage, Devops… In practice everything is in a spectrum. Focus on building value as the primary goal.
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If you can live close to where you work, I think you’ll have more enjoyable life, more productivity and be more committed so they to do that if you could. Clive Schlee, CEO Pret A Monger
We have as many Macs as Windows laptops. Needless to say that those are two very different worlds that meet at Office. Usually Office works as expected. Windows Office is more reliable and has richer functionality but Office for Mac appears more stylish in the eyes of Mac lovers. The issue is that El Captain, a new iOS update, and Office don’t get on. Don’t allow for OS upgrades without testing core apps.
The 80/20 rule applies. Focus on finding the bottlenecks and come up with the plan that can include:
– Quick wins: Refactor specific code or scale up Cloud to get you over the hump
– Lasting solution: Iterate to create platform that works in the Cloud
I debated the value of team meetings for a few weeks now.
Finally decided to give it a go. 45mins of round the table:
– Focus of the week
– Dependency on others
Great design shouldn’t be reserved only for the mass market products. Your colleagues will use the business apps that you build every day.
Design them to be usable and also to look modern and tidy. Nothing worst then using the app that you know could look much better. Get a template from Theme Forest. If in doubt select one of the best sellers for your use case and you will be 80% there.
Life savers with cloud DBs since many std features are not supported on SaaS DBs. Worth the money and especially useful if you are managing many DBs.
Educate your users to default to searching for tech answers before reaching out to IT support. Google is your user’s friend.
Ok. So you believe in micro services and shadow IT. You add a task management tool, e-payslips, HR app, case management and more. They all make sense since they address a specific need. And then at some point you feel a need to link them first via a single sign on (with a service like Okta) and later as a coordinated work flow. Don’t do this since you will be adding complexity and removing optionality to use the best service for the job since you will be embedding the tools that you selected because they are easily replaceable.
Use Kaseya to manage internal IT (asset management, IT config management, for example).