I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE (oversing update)(sorry competitors)(humor)(diary) I know

I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE

(oversing update)(sorry competitors)(humor)(diary)

I know. Feeling cocky today. Very. It’ll pass. But right now I’m enjoying it. 🙂

I was wrong. The permissions were done correctly, I just leapt to a conclusion late last night (tired). The groups weren’t done yet.

I was wrong. The forecast tracking is easy to add, and the workflow system to manage it is done correctly. I designed a “belt and suspenders” solution. I am not sure that’s necessary if we log all adds and removals from the period. I think we just made it easier that it was for us at Ascentium.

I triaged all the remaining known work this week. I’m thrilled with the state of things.

Roman (our Chief User Advocate) has a (frightening) number of issues he’s filed under ‘tweaks’: 286 of them. A lot of them are small but brilliant things. We can’t do all of them but we can sure do most.

I need to triage two folders of the ‘bugs and tweaks’,(about 500 altogether) because (a) many of them are very old and I don’t think they’re real any longer; (b) it seems like many of them are dupes; (c) it seems like a lot of them are fixed already through the natural course of events.

THE LUXURY OF TIME

If you have the luxury of developing software at low burn rates and long schedules, it’s the most wonderful way to work in the world. Time pressure harms thoughts and increases gambles. I would prefer to manage budget with salaries dependent upon GDP, than with greater budgets and guns to my head.

The Atlassian guys are sort of ‘Hippies’ (Think Portland) and we’re kind of ‘Yuppies’ (Think Seattle), but both of us like to practice our craft with the luxury of time.

The trick is that the time you put into your work must produce profits that not only pay for your original investment, but that generate the future profits to justify the risk you took.

Curt.