Most of the companies I’ve worked for in the last 5 years have used the OKR system. Although this system was invented in the 70s, it has more recently become popular at Google and has spread through the tech world. It’s a simple system where the company defines a number of Objectives, and each objective […]
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Moving forward after a Code Spike
Writing code is often the best way to figure out what exactly needs to be done to solve a problem. In the Agile world, they call this a Spike. A spike is when a software developer sits down and starts writing little bits of code with the goal of building a map of all the work […]
What Biz People Need to Know About Tech: Single Page Apps
This is an installment in the What Biz People Need to Know About Tech series. It’s aim is to help non-technical business people to communicate better with engineers and provide better feedback about the value they want them to deliver. In the 90s, calling them “Pages” made perfect sense. Everything used to be so simple. Here’s how web pages worked back in […]
In Praise of Multiple DB setups and Rails 6
It looks like Rails 6 is going to include first class support for configuring your app to talk to multiple databases. I’m not going to get too deep into how the feature will work in this post. I think there will be plenty of blog posts and documentation discussing that once it’s released. I want […]
What Biz People Need to Know About Tech: Series Intro
This series of posts is for business people who work on projects that involve software development. The goal is to help those business people to better understand the work their developers are doing and what value it adds to the business. If you are a non-technical founder of a startup, a CEO of a large […]
