Category Organizational Methodologies

  • Getting Organized: The Flow of Flowcharts

    As engineering leaders, we spend a lot of time mapping out systems. Flowcharts, diagrams, and sequence charts are our bread and butter when designing scalable architecture, complex DBMS flows, or service integrations. But lately, I’ve been leaning into these same tools for something unexpected: thinking.

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  • Getting Organized: Using version control in your daily life

    How can you apply the concepts of version control, commonly used for software engineering and complex documentation projects, to aspects of your everyday work and life to help you stay organized? Adding some simple methods taken from common version control methodologies can be useful in many different aspects of life and work. Take for example financial records, applying some basic naming conventions and versioning to your filing (whether digital or hard copies) can provide some much-needed ease of access to a set of information that can easily become overwhelming.

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