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📅 May 24, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

Using Failures To Gain Success – The Season 17 Overview

We start season 17 with an overview of what to expect. This season will focus on using failures to gain success. Too much is made of the road to success without pointing out the…

📅 April 28, 2022 Architecture Patterns and Anti-Patterns ⏱ 2 minutes read

Using Patterns and Anti-Patterns : Season Wrap-up

We end this season with a look at using patterns and anti-patterns throughout your work. The value they provide is obvious and costs little. We gain the lessons learned from others and have those…

📅 April 26, 2022 Architecture Patterns and Anti-Patterns ⏱ 3 minutes read

Big Hairy Audacious Goals – An Anti-Pattern

The BHAG or Big Hairy Audacious Goals approach to vision or roadmaps is often recommended. The objective is to keep from limiting ourselves. The problem is that too much of a good thing can…

📅 April 21, 2022 Architecture Patterns and Anti-Patterns ⏱ 3 minutes read

Rinse And Repeat – A template pattern

One of the most powerful and useful patterns I have come across is one we will call rinse and repeat. It may also be seen as copy and paste or templates. However, the result…

📅 April 19, 2022 Architecture Patterns and Anti-Patterns ⏱ 3 minutes read

The Rosetta Stone Pattern – A Common Format

Our new patterns include the rosetta stone. This pattern provides a path to link disparate systems and their data formats. It comes from the historical rosetta stone which was a multilingual text used to…

📅 April 14, 2022 Architecture Patterns and Anti-Patterns ⏱ 3 minutes read

The Worst That Can Happen – An Architectural Pattern

We continue on a series of new patterns and anti-patterns with “the worst that can happen.” This pattern uses fear and hyperbole to help us tighten up a design. We imagine what can go…

📅 April 12, 2022 Architecture Patterns and Anti-Patterns ⏱ 3 minutes read

Technical Debt – Yes, That Is A Pattern

The idea of technical debt is a hot topic among software development groups. In particular, this concept shows up in agile efforts. While it is more a concept than a pattern, we can use…

📅 April 7, 2022 Architecture Patterns and Anti-Patterns ⏱ 3 minutes read

The Cancer Pattern – One Place The C Word is Ok.

The Cancer pattern has a word we do not have a favorable view of. However, this pattern is becoming needed in more and more environments. This pattern is one for conversions and migrations. We…

📅 April 5, 2022 Architecture Patterns and Anti-Patterns ⏱ 3 minutes read

Keep It Simple – A Pattern To Avoid Complexity

We return to pick up a couple of new patterns. In this episode, we look at the keep it simple pattern and how to apply it to architecture. It is a pattern that we…

📅 March 31, 2022 Architecture Patterns and Anti-Patterns ⏱ 3 minutes read

Misdirection Anti-Pattern : Solving The Wrong Problem

We looked at an incorrect focus based on faulty data analysis in our prior episode. This time we explore solving the wrong problem with the misdirection anti-pattern. While this situation can arise from the…