Looking through the lens... with detail. Observing by listening and watching to what users have to say. Seeing in action, the fast-paced environment. The vast amount of tools and systems in use just to get the job done. Trying to understand the users current knowledge of features with-in a system vs their limitation on time … Continue reading Looking through the lens…
Category: Theories
Looking for Inspiration
Ever had a thought of just doing something totally different? Something that could just improve the current situation? Trying to reach out just for ideas? Learning something new just by word of mouth? Spending time just investigating what's new? Trialing outcomes just to see results? Be it something small to just being something much greater. … Continue reading Looking for Inspiration
Advice
How do you manage it? If in doubt, do you cross reference the advice to check if it's correct? Are you the type that will go beyond and give advice to others? Could you potentially persuade people within reasons to change their minds? Would you give a mini task that will benefit a persons understanding? … Continue reading Advice
Craftsmanship vs Continuous Production
In a line of duty, when duty calls... Quality craftsmanship is needed when many issues occur. Sometimes having to question almost everything to understand the start to end process. Usually when user stories change more often during production and the need to get more clarification. Whilst keeping on top of demand, it's urgent - meeting … Continue reading Craftsmanship vs Continuous Production
Gimmicks
As we get older, we get wiser. We tend to have less time as more responsibilities grow. In time those have to be sorted by priorities. Additional drivers causes conflicts. Those are being talented, being kind and helpful where needed. Day to day activities include solving many issues and answering many questions. Questions on the … Continue reading Gimmicks
Where’s the Transparency?
Another key element along with communication is transparency. It's great communicating information between people, but where's the transparency around it. Allow me to explain. Communication can be easily be lost in translation and also be misunderstood. It also gets harder with groups of people in meetings, leading to more complexity and become notorious for multiple … Continue reading Where’s the Transparency?
Awareness of Communication
There's no problem talking about real issues that have a large impact. Based on day to day activities, if something is taking longer then usual then you've got a problem. Whether it's a long winded process, a hardware or software system, network, or performance issue - all cost time. Take a random day of the … Continue reading Awareness of Communication
New Strategy
Having time spent reviewing code bases and realising where to optimise productivity. Helping out not just the end users, but the developers either sides of the teams. One of the biggest issue with our monolithic system is where to find certain features. This is because of many reasons. Built by different developers all at different … Continue reading New Strategy
Cleaning up the Process
Right now, having spare time is great. Useful to spend time refactoring code bases. For simplicity and legibility sake. Easy for new recruits to understand and easily maintain with a little bit of help from colleagues around them. Scaling at ease while growing phenomenomly. Reviewing some learning materials to picking something new and trialing its … Continue reading Cleaning up the Process
Just don’t judge or assume, always ask.
When in doubt that is or when there are other great talent around you. But when that isn't the case, try going by experience. Then if you don't have that, try learning it on your own. Don't blame on it, you could be doing it wrong yourself. Try finding those that have the experience. You … Continue reading Just don’t judge or assume, always ask.
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