Ron Jeffries: Strawberries 8: Joy. On Twitter the past few days, my good Tweep Alex Bunardzic was commenting that his biggest career challenge has been “selling technical excellence”. It seemed to him that the issue for devs who wouldn’t buy in was that while it might be better later, it would involve hard work now in return for a promise of good things later. (more)

DHH: The Majestic Monolith can become The Citadel. The vast majority of web applications should start life as a Majestic Monolith (more)

DHH: The Majestic Monolith. But before we dive into all its glory, let’s first examine its opposite pattern: Micro/services oriented architecture (more)

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aka The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - first published in 1989, is a business and self-help book written by Stephen Covey.[1] Covey presents an approach to being effective in attaining goals by aligning oneself to what he calls "true north" principles based on a character ethic that he presents as universal and timeless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People

First Things First[2] (1994) is a self-help book written by Stephen Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill. It offers a time management approach that, if established as a habit, is intended to help readers achieve "effectiveness" by aligning themselves to "First Things". The approach is a further development of the approach popularized in Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and other titles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Things_First_(book)

sense/property of being urgent, pressing, time-sensitive. For product team, see velocity. (more)

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban,[a] PC QC (/ˈbeɪkən/;[5] 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. His works are credited with developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolution.[6] Bacon has been called the father of empiricism.[7] His works argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. Most importantly, he argued science could be achieved by use of a sceptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves. Although his practical ideas about such a method, the Baconian method, did not have a long-lasting influence, the general idea of the importance and possibility of a sceptical methodology makes Bacon the father of the scientific method. This method was a new rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, the practical details of which are still central in debates about science and methodology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon (more)

GeePaw Hill model: (2017-09-09) Hill Software RAMPS

GeePaw Hill tweetstorm framing RoadMap process as "Endpointing". Endpointing is over-focus on eventual destination. in s/w, it's seeing development as a long trip to a known destination on a known map.. Within a few weeks, predictability virtually vanishes... and just as we're moving, so is it (the destination). it isn't just the market that changes, it's really everything related to our vision, including us... it encourages us to make commitments we can't possibly keep. that in turn encourages lots of very counter-productive behavior... it encourages us to mislead. we mislead ourselves, each other, our customers, our shareholders... i work hard to avoid words like "evil", but this is a kind of structural madness... optimize for small doable/undoable steps. optimize for motivation, the engine that keeps us going... give 75% of your attention to this week, 20% to this month, and 5% to this year... harvest every inch of value you find every step of the way by handing it to customers... the opposite of "endpointing" is "next-stepping". train people in these ideas, AT EVERY LEVEL. they're relevant in code, process, planning.

In computer programming, an anonymous function (function literal, lambda abstraction, or lambda expression) is a function definition that is not bound to an identifier. Anonymous functions are often arguments being passed to higher-order functions, or used for constructing the result of a higher-order function that needs to return a function.[1] If the function is only used once, or a limited number of times, an anonymous function may be syntactically lighter than using a named function. Anonymous functions are ubiquitous in functional programming languages and other languages with first-class functions, where they fulfill the same role for the function type as literals do for other data types. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_function (more)

Someone who doesn't buy Insurance (for some particular possibility), but saves on his own to cover expenses. Or an employer who operates his own health coverage for employees, rather than contracting with a health insurance carrier.

most-often, holding a "traditional" physician/care session over video. Sometimes uses/adds texting. (more)

Shriram Krishnamurthi has a long tweetstorm about NoCode systems. (more)

a Pattern with negative consequences (more)

part of a Pattern Language (more)

GeePawHill: MMMSS - A Closer Look at Steps. Today, let’s close in a little more on what "step" means to us. (more)

GeePaw Hill: Path-Focused Design. "Path-focused design", of stories, architecture, code, is design that understands that we can only reach a distant City on the Hill by taking one stride-limited shipping step at a time. (more)

GeePawHill: on Iterative User Value. We want our work to come in stories of about one team-day and a half, but that’s not much time, and we need to provide a steady flow of value to our users. (more)

For some people, it simply means a Development Queue: product ideas in varying levels of thought-out-ness that we haven't done yet. (more)