The Daily Friction

20 years using Visual Studio. And then came Rider. Picture this – you've been mastering Visual Studio for two long decades when a new contender strides onto the field. It's Rider, the underdog here to challenge the reigning champ, and against all odds, it's nailing...

AI is making an end to hourly billing. Solving problems quicker, makes you earn less. A rather discouraging correlation, don't you think? With AI on board, clinging onto time-based revenue seems illogical. It's high time to consider other types of pricing. Earning...

Finally unlocking the secrets of Test-Driven Development (TDD)! Here's what I've been getting wrong all these years... I never understood TDD. In some cases you know the requirements to create tests, but often I don't. Coding is for me research, designing, and trying...

Say goodbye to Feedly 👋 - there's a new powerhouse tool in play! 🚀 Google Reader used to be my go-to, but when it got axed in 2013, I found myself at a loss 😟. Enter Feedly, the perfect balm to soothe the Google Reader-shaped wound in my heart 💔. But, new tides bring...

Ever observed the compelling urge we humans have to fill empty spaces? You've got an empty room—you run to buy furniture. 🛋️ Your calendar looks too vacant—you invent tasks. 🗓️ Got a large office? You're in a rush to pack it with people. 🏢 We've become masters at...

Fixed Pricing: Risky business or strategic move? Let's shatter the illusions and uncover the truth about fixed pricing. What is the default argument why it can't work? 🤔 It's too risky! 🎲 It isn't. You only change who takes the risk. 🔀 With hourly billing the risk is...

Hourly billing is a trap for your growth. As you sharpen skills, you work faster. More speed means less hours, resulting in lesser income 💸. Fair? The better you are at your work, the lesser you earn. You can raise your hourly rate but that has a limit. Then you start...

How can technology make sales and marketing teams more efficient? As an expert on Dynamics 365 and Power Platform integration, I have noticed how important automation is. By harnessing the power of automation, many tasks that used to take hours can now be done in...

Safety thinking It destroys a company. It destroys a government. Everything needs to be in a process. Everything needs to be approved. Everything needs to be accounted for. Having safety measurements for something that happens one in 10 years is stupid. Take some...

Discover the secret to successful remote team bonding! It's not daily stand-up meetings. Picture this: starting our week with a light, conversational meeting, where we swap tales from the weekend and lay out our plans for the week. It's team building done right,...

❌ I removed AutoMapper... It was making my code more complex without reaping the benefits 🚫. Why? 🤔 Low no. of entities to map in my codebase. I was defining all field mappings anyhow because I like explicit mappings. 🧩 So, it didn't solve a problem for me. But it...

Stand-up meetings? A waste of time! Just to tell the PO what you did, are doing and are blocked by. Aren't there better ways? When communication in the team is good, teammates seek each other out in case of problems, then the daily stand-up is not useful anymore. If...