A daily newsletter about automation and eliminating friction.
Since C# 10 (.NET 6.0) arrived my code looks much cleaner. Less code is less waste, which is good for the environment! C# 10 achieved this with top-level statements, global using directives and file-scoped namespace declaration. It's even spin off a new fresh way of...
7 reasons to use marketing automation. ✅ 1. Improved efficiency Streamline and automate repetitive tasks, free up time for more strategic, high-level work. ✅ 2. Increased effectiveness Target your campaigns more effectively, leading to higher engagement and conversion...
"What is GitHub? Wrong answers only." I came across this question on Twitter and the answers made me laugh-out-loud.
Sometimes I want to write a small C# snippet to test or check an idea. But it is too much effort to start up Visual Studio (Code) or Rider and create a console app. Even when I have any of these editors open, it is still much of a hassle. It's often not even worth...
Schedule a 1-hour meeting, just to be sure, and somehow people will use the full hour. People deviate from the original topics of interest and there is no urgency to conclude the meeting sooner. We even have Parkinson’s law that explains it:“Work expands so as to fill...
Shorten your meeting to prepare for the next one? Does this really work? I doubt it in the way we are using it now. There is a trend going on to shorten meetings to 25 min or 50 min. The idea is that it gives you some room to prepare for the next meeting coming up....
I was looking into rules for meetings. What are good times to meet? How long? How do you set up meetings? This is what I found: ✅ Do meetings of 1/2 hour or an hour. Most people prefer this. ❌ Don't schedule meetings before 9:00 AM or after 4 PM. People like to do...
For development I use Rider (dotnet) and WebStorm (Web/JavaScript) from JetBrains. In the new update, 2022.3, you can enable their new UI. You can turn it on in Settings > Appearance & Behavior > New UI. I just enable it and test drive it the entire day. I will...
Get rid of the Product Owner! It's a term introduced with Scrum, but it is creating more confusion than making things clear. New people to Scrum, have no clue what it means. Even when explained and shown, it's still not clear to them. First, it's an exceedingly...
Dynamics 365 Sales added Email Validation on Leads. A small feature that I almost missed. But it comes with great power. It analyzes the primary email address in lead records to identify the ones that can't receive email. It looks for the following issues: ✅ Incorrect...
I use Kanban instead of Scrum. Much simpler. By removing two main things from Scrum we have Kanban: ❌ Sprints❌ Tasks When you have Continuous Delivery working then you can release anytime. With Continuous Deployment you are releasing every change. You don't need the...
I am starting to hate Scrum. 8 years ago, I started with Scrum, and I was a fan. It removed friction of writing down everything before implementing and it gave the team way of saying no to too much work. Now it's become a project methodology for managers to control...
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