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Author: Rob Broadhead
Rob is a founder of, and frequent contributor to, Develpreneur. This includes the Building Better Developers podcast. He is also a lifetime learner as a developer, designer, and manager of software solutions. Rob is the founder of RB Consulting and has managed to author a book about his family experiences and a few about becoming a better developer.
In his free time, he stays busy raising five children (although they have grown into adults). When he has a chance to breathe, he is on the ice playing hockey to relax or working on his ballroom dance skills.
There are multiple lessons to learn from this little debacle of a story. However, trust but verify seems to be the best summation. We have to assume a lot in business. There…
Know Who You Work For – Lines Are Not Always Clear
Clarity and communication are common themes in our improvement episodes. Those are most important when you need to know who you work for. Which master do you serve? The mistake highlighted this…
Admitting Defeat – Moving Forward And Accepting The Loss
In a season about growing from errors and mistakes, it seems that an episode about admitting defeat is required. We cannot stay stationary and make progress. This concept holds for individual situations…
Clearly Defined Objectives – It Is A Mistake To Not Ask Questions
This episode of learning from mistakes focuses on clearly defined objectives. The error highlights what can go wrong when we fail to have them. We also see these same potential issues pop…
Testing Your Backups – Disaster Recovery Requires Verification
There are a few times I have been taught the value of testing your backups. That is why even disaster recovery needs to be validated. The first story I share is probably…
Sweeping Consequences – Avoid All In Until You Are Sure
There is an old joke about sweeping consequences in IT related to wildcard commands like “rm -rf *.” However, there are ways to avoid getting bit by them. For example, we can…