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Month: May 2021

Do You Even Process Bro?Photo by Digital Buggu from Pexels
Published 2021/05/30

Do You Even Process Bro?

Yeah the title sucks. That is what I get for having kids and living with teenagers – the constant meme-driven noise that pervades every aspect of home life. The title is a deviation from an older meme about weightlifting that has been co-opted into a simple question about doing things that seem obvious and common. Things that we should all be doing. Which brings us to the topic at hand. Processes. The thought of building and following a process can unfortunately have some negative connotations. Processes almost always carry overhead and paperwork. They take time. They can be tedious. Yet there are processes all around us in the business world. They are, at a deep level, a means of communication. Of structure. Of collaboration. To an Engineer, a finely tuned process is a thing of beauty. But I digress. While the goal is to argue for processes and the value…

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Creating Automatic Audit Information In Relational DatabasesPhoto by Caspar Camille Rubin on Unsplash
Published 2021/05/23

Creating Automatic Audit Information In Relational Databases

Data is awesome. Maybe it would be more accurate to say that having an ability to sift through mounds of data and come up with a specific answer or conclusion is an awesome ability to have. In my experience as a developer, building queries and logic into databases has always been one of my favorite types of development. Linking together disparate pieces of data into something functional and usable is really cool. However, one aspect of data that was drilled into my head as a young Engineer was the ability to audit data. Who did What and When did they do it? Now, years later I find myself building an integrated custom data solution for Product and Project Management, Time Entry, and Product Release Management. So where did I start? With the data of course. The following is a quick crash course in setting up tables and functionality in a…

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You Need Organizational Readiness – But You Don’t Know How To Implement ItPhoto by Startup Stock Photos from Pexels
Published 2021/05/14

You Need Organizational Readiness – But You Don’t Know How To Implement It

Let me introduce a new concept to talk about today: Org Readiness It just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? Org Readiness is a necessary concept that goes hand-in-hand with Engineering. While the concept may be more easily understood in the realm of product Engineering, this really applies to any Engineering discipline. While I write mainly regarding Engineering topics and specifically for Engineers, this topic is not directly for this group. However, indirectly, this is a concept that has a huge bearing on whether the work and effort done by the Engineers has any chance of success within the business. If we were to draw an organizational structure that looked like a target with the Engineering Team sitting smack-dab in the middle of the bullseye then it is a fact that the concept of Org Readiness is not within that center circle. However, it is the connecting tissue that connects…

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