Quotes
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. John Ruskin
#HoskWisdom Favoutes this week
- The only limitation to what you can develop is the person developing it #HoskWisdom
- The end always triggers a beginning #HoskWisdom
- The pressure to make things complex will be great but you must keep it as simple as possible #HoskWisdom
- Don’t waste words, make every one count #HoskWisdom
- Don’t blame other people for your failures #HoskWisdom
- Constantly talking about doing something is a barrier to doing something #HoskWisdom
- It’s not just what you say but how you say it #HoskWisdom
- if you tried your hardest you have nothing to regret #HoskWisdom
- If something has no value, stop measuring it #HoskWisdom
- Contributing to a successful team is better than achieving personal goals #HoskWisdom
- Don’t over think and under act #HoskWisdom
- The difficulty working with cowboy coders is dealing with the all shit that comes from their code and horses #HoskCodeWisdom
- Increasing people on a project increases complexity of working, colloborating and communicating #HoskWisdom
- When I see someone crying when their football team has lost, I want to tell them they need to take football more seriously #HoskWisdom
- Respect silence, its thinking time #HoskWisdom
- You cant solve all of life’s problems in a day but you can start with one of your own #HoskWisdom
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Articles of the week
Using Portal Capabilities in Dynamics 365 (CRM)
Good run through portal capabilities, a detailed step by step guide
Best of the rest
The difficulties of scaled agile projects
Dynamics 365 SDK refreshed (11 January 2017)
10 Types of Dynamics 365 Project for IT Decision Makers
Getting around Delegated Admin Restrictions
Read Barcode Value Using Barcode Scanner Control in Dynamics 365
Step by Step Guide to Setting up your Dynamics 365 Portal Trial
Working with JSON objects in Dynamics CRM Plugins
Smart Buttons in the Ribbon Workbench
ALM for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: CRM Solution Lifecycle Management
Everyday is a school day, yomi fields are for phonetic spelling
Programming/Scrum
5 Steps To Better Agile Retrospectives
Trello board on better retrospectives
It’s Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily Standup Meetings
CannotMeasureProductivity
Other
Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
Leadership That Gets Results
Servant leadership – the leadership theory of robert K. greenleaf
Effective Leadership Styles for Scrum Masters
Five books every ScrumMaster should read
Béla Guttmann: the mastermind who was more than just a curse
Stephen Hawking’s Productive Laziness
To Everyone Who Asks For ‘Just A Little’ Of Your Time: Here’s What It Costs To Say Yes
everything Ryan Holiday wrote in 2016
how to improve success rates in NFL drafts
David Foster Wallace: The String Theory
Great course for Scrum masters
How to build a great team and culture
The Hosk – currently reading
- Strategy Concepts of Bill Belichick: A Leadership Case Study of the New England Patriots Head Coach
- How to Manage People
- Winners: And How They Succeed
- The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software
- Scrum Mastery: From Good To Great Servant-Leadership
The Hosk – just finished reading
- War Room: The Legacy of Bill Belichick and the Art of Building the Perfect Team – 7/10 talks about the back room staff as well as Bill
- The Education of a Coach – 7/10 interesting to learn about Bill Belichick and his methods
- Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness through Situational Leadership 6/10 very small and bit annoying, glad I borrowed it from the library
Hosk’s CRM Developer Articles
A collection of my favourite CRM Developer articles I have written
CRM 2016 – Tips on passing the MB2-712 customization and config exam
All the CRM 2013 content to help you pass the exam
#HoskCodeWisdom
When you are going through project hell, don’t stop to create the nice to have features #HoskCodeWisdom
Quick fixes are never quick and usually add technical debt, so take longer and do it properly #HoskCodeWisdom
If not managed properly, adding more people to a project can slow it down instead of speeding it up #HoskCodeWisdom
Don’t waste time adding functionality the user might like but hasn’t asked for #HoskCodeWisdom
Never optimize code unless you have to #HoskCodeWisdom
Scrum master should never have answers they should ask the team for answers #HoskCodeWisdom
Writing code is simple but writing simple code is the hardest thing you can code #HoskCodeWisdom
You need to love code with your heart and write code with your head if you want to be good programmer #HoskCodeWisdom
Creating bugs bothers good developers #HoskCodeWisdom
If you don’t find writing code fun, you will never be good developer #HoskCodeWisdom
If you don’t control technical debt, it controls you and the horse you rode in on #HoskCodeWisdom
You cannot be the master coding because some days the code wins and you lose #HoskCodeWisdom
When programmers think they are good, code will find a way for you to waste a whole day on something which doesn’t work #HoskCodeWisdom
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