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📅 July 29, 2019

The Passive Income Approaches Season Overview

Passive income is a hot topic in certain quarters. Likewise, we have mentioned and even discussed this approach to revenue over the years. This season will focus on passive income approaches and side hustle families of work that are in…

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📅 July 19, 2019

The AntiPattern Season in Review

We have marched through 31 examples during this antipattern season. Therefore, we have enough of them to step back and look at themes, bad habits, and commonalities. While it is helpful to know about the individual patterns, it is better…

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📅 July 17, 2019

Death By Planning – A Rigid Anti-Pattern

Death by planning is an anti-pattern that makes us look like lemmings. We make a plan, and then we follow it mindlessly. This approach can work for some projects like building a house. However, software development does not work this…

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📅 July 15, 2019

The Fire Drill Anti-Pattern

The fire drill anti-pattern is one that falls on project management. While we can personally place ourselves in this sort of situation, the anti-pattern comes from planning. To be specific, it comes from poor planning. Think of the idea that…

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📅 July 12, 2019

The Throw It Over The Wall Anti-Pattern

The throw it over the wall anti-pattern is shared across a broad range of disciplines. However, it is particularly damaging to the software development process. We will focus on that discipline as we dig deeper into this communication-related issue. Defining…

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📅 July 10, 2019

Analysis Paralysis – An Over-thinking Anti-Pattern

The “Analysis Paralysis” anti-pattern may be the most well known. It has a few other names. However, a search on this one will return a broad range of results. The detrimental effects of thinking over action are not seen only…

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