“Missionaries and mercenaries” has a pretty intriguing ring to it, huh? I wish I could claim credit for it, but I heard about it on this podcast with Ribbonfarm creator Venkat Rao. Apparently, entrepreneurs use this pithy phrase to make a distinction among themselves. I’ll explain in more detail shortly. First, however, I’d like to…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SubMain blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, have a look around at some of the other posts and sign up for the feed. During my younger days, I worked for a company that made a habit of strategic…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SubMain blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, check out CodeIt.Right and give it a try. In professional contexts, I think that the word “standard” has two distinct flavors. So when we talk about a “team standard” or a…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the NDepend blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, take a look at the latest version of NDepend, with extensive features around technical debt measurement. An American colloquialism holds, “only two things are certain: death and taxes.” If I had…
I got an awesome tweet at the Expert Beginner twitter account the other day. Omer had one of those “wow, I can’t believe I never thought of this myself” ideas. @ExpertBeginner1 how are you with anonymous contributions? open DMs? — Omer van Kloeten (@omervk) March 6, 2017 Yes, please. Up until this point, I have…
