The Daily Friction

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Scrum has become a cult, even a religion 🛐✝️🕌. If I dare hint that Scrum might be causing a bit of unproductivity, I'm smacked with "you're not doing it right" 🙅‍♂️. Apparently, I'm not strict enough in adhering to the rules or have somehow misinterpreted them 🧐....

Embracing the trend of going paperless? 📝➡️🗑️ Let's talk about frictionless too. A topic often ignored. 🚫🔥 Downloading a PDF that you need to fill it in and then upload it again... Yes, it's digital but you added more friction for the customer. 🚧 These are what I call...

Strive for few dependencies Every package that you add to your code is yet another dependency to your project. This dependency is not for free. You take on the risk of the dependency. Do you know the quality of the code? Do you know the experience of the programmer...

Start simple with Git. With feature branches on the main branch: GitHub Flow. But consider this 🤔: Why create a branch for a feature that can be built in one day? Is it a convention we mindlessly follow or a useful practice? Consider working directly on the main...

Price's law: 50% of the work is done by the square root of the number of employees. So: If you have 10 employees, 3 do 50% of the work. If you have 100 employees, 10 do 50% of the work. If you have 10k employees, 100 do 50% the work. I think this law has some truth to...

Connections in Dynamics 365. Should we still use them? Connections are very flexible and could be an option for some use cases. But most of the time I don't recommend them. Why? The User eXperience is so horrible. Users don't get how it should work. The problem: It's...

Git's branching, a power and a menace. More branches? More chaos. The result - sluggish workflows, longer feedback loops, tiresome reviews, late deployments, complex merges. Following changes across multiple branches - a time stealer, a collaboration killer....

Decoding Git Branching: Less is More! Easy and powerful - that's Git branching for me. I went on a journey with GitFlow branching strategy only to realize its complexity and pivoted to GitHub Flow. Now I am even more extreme, with almost no branches, using Trunk-based...

The Magic of Marketing Automation. Are you tracking each customer interaction? 📝 Are you assessing predictable patterns and behaviors?📊 Or are you still relying on guesswork and intuitions? ❓ Remember, the key to an effective marketing campaign is understanding...

The Most Powerful Question in Tech? Ever 😮 wondered about the most 💪 powerful question you can ask during requirement analyses or bug fixing? Let me let you in on a secret, it's: 'Can you show me how you do that?' Witnessing 👀 how a user performs a task can showcase...

In technology, we often lose sight of the human equation. That seems counterintuitive for customer-based platforms, doesn't it? We talk so much about integration and automation in Dynamics 365, or any other system for that matter, but we spend comparatively little...