I read this quote today “If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.”  I tried to find the source, and it varies, but it seems to be most often accredited to ex-football coach Lou Holtz.  While it may have originated in sports, it also has a place in management and development.  [...]

Sometimes its hard to effectively share everything among all members of a group.  We have weekly meetings to review our projects and their status and we use project collaboration software but sometimes we simply get absorbed in our own projects and workload. A great way to share information among team members is through fixing error [...]

Keep an environment where developers, and all employees for that matter are allowed to make mistakes.  If people are afraid of repurcussions, then they will spend more time trying to hide or make excuses for an issue rather than fixing that issue.  If something is going drastically wrong on our website, I much rather we [...]

Developing effectively starts with the team. Of course projects requirements, deadlines and specs all play their part, but if you do not have an effective team for the job, you will go nowhere fast. In web development teams should be kept lean. If you have a large team, consider breaking them up into groups of [...]

Let me give you a little information about where I am coming from. I would like to show you that you can merge modern development techniques such as getting real, agile development, pragmatic programming in a corporate environment. Currently I am the Director of Web Development for a large financial website. We publish original content, [...]

Welcome! This is my first post, so let me introduce myself. I manage a group of developers for a large website, where I initially started as a junior developer 10 years ago. I have decided it is time I share some of my thoughts, experiences and practices that I have gathered over these years. I [...]