Loads of Little Things – Like Buckets of Things
Today has been one of those days… it started out with some wonderful steel cut oatmeal at the cafeteria… I had no idea they had that! It was wonderful. But from there on, it was a steep descent downhill.
We are coming off the horrible morning and then trying to get a good number of features and fixes into the code for the afternoon release to production. I like to keep releasing something off master to production each day as that allows the users and project manager to see some visible progress each day. Big or small, it makes little difference to be able to point out the changes we have made based on their feedback and requests.
Often times, though, this means doing a lot of nasty work to follow up with people that dropped the ball (but doing so in a way to make them feel like they are doing you a favor), cleaning up problems and messes left by others, and all the little ick work that comes with software development.
Today has been that day for me.
I'm glad it's over.
On the up-side… we are releasing something far better than yesterday, and the really great ones never loose sight of the fact that it's all in the details.