Stakeholders, Engineering, Platforms and Products

Tension between Stakeholder and Engineering

Stakeholders always want more features, faster

Engineers always want to use the best engineering practices. 

In the long run, there needs to be a balance between the two. If the stakeholders always get their way in the short-term, engineering must cut corners and will pay for it in the future. If engineering always gets their way, features do not get completed in a timely manner. 

We must always pick two.

Tension between the mindset of Platform and Products

CBRE has has a push toward a platform mindset rather and a product. There are some questions that I have thought of that relate to this. 

What is team X responsible to create in the reusable component?

What is team Y responsible to create in the app that hosts the reusable component?

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Whenever you have a question, refer to the principles at https://agilemanifesto.org/

Making Everything Bigger in Windows 10

From "Fonts, sizes and color settings of the Outlook interface"

Windows 10

- Right click on an empty spot on your Desktop and choose “Display Settings”.

- In the “Scale and layout section”, use the “Change the size of text, apps, and other items” dropdown list to set your preferred zoom level.

- To set a custom zoom level, press the Custom scaling link (Windows 10 Version 1709) or the “Advanced scaling settings” link (Windows 10 Version 1803). Since Version 1803, Windows can also detect desktop apps which don’t zoom and improve their graphics output via the option: Let Windows try to fix apps so they’re not blurry.

Another way to adjust this is the Ctrl + and - in your browser. If things are too big, you can always adjust things in browsers. 

What is the Location of Saved Images in Android from the Facebook App?

What is the Location of Saved Images in Android from the Facebook App?
On my phone it is "DCIM/Facebook/" 

I got this from Stack Exchange

An Infinite Onion

Sometimes it seems that there is an infinite onion of layers to explain about what the software systems do that I support. This last week, I didn't realize a function that it does. It reminded me of the phrase “turtles all the way down”. 

'"Turtles all the way down" is an expression of the problem of infinite regress. The saying alludes to the mythological idea of a World Turtle that supports a flat Earth on its back. It suggests that this turtle rests on the back of an even larger turtle, which itself is part of a column of increasingly large turtles that continues indefinitely.' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down)

Beyond Compare: Filter older / newer than: why are the files shown?

 Here is how you use the "exclude files" newer/older than X feature in Beyond Compare

https://www.scootersoftware.com/vbulletin/forum/beyond-compare-4-discussion/general/13333-filter-older-newer-than-why-are-the-files-shown

Agile or the CBRE way?

Years ago a scrum master at CBRE started to say that that is not the "agile way". She corrected herself and said "I mean the CBRE way". We all laughed because they certainly are not always the same thing. As I have reflected on the last few years, I have come to understand that, at least in my team we are agile. Agile means continuous improvement. We are even better at agile practices than we used to be. The definition of agile. 

With that in mind we should always be aware of where the goal is. To me it is simply encapsulated in the https://agilemanifesto.org/

Figma tips and tricks

In Windows:

 - space bar+ mouse to pan

- ctrl+mouse wheel to zoom