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📅 July 26, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

Differences In Perception – A Stupid Bet

There are many fights and arguments that start from differences in perception. Whether it is the line-of-sight, angle, or bias, we have differing views. These can cause reasonable people to take starkly different positions…

📅 July 19, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

A Positive Attitude and Finding Hidden Gems

Sometimes a story is full of lessons without having a well-defined core. There are many players, and the successful have a positive attitude. This trend supersedes mistakes, errors, and even bad luck. We look…

📅 July 14, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

Trust But Verify – Avoid Business Assumptions

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 are levels…

📅 July 12, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

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 time is…

📅 July 7, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

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 and group…

📅 July 6, 2022 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 2 minutes read

What Goes Into Building Software

Welcome to another edition of Developreneur. In this presentation, we are gonna be talking about software development. What goes into building software. Instead of this being just a run-of-the-mill discussion on SDLC, we will…

📅 July 5, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

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 up when…

📅 June 30, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

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 a worst-case…

📅 June 28, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 3 minutes read

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 do test…