Mike Badgett

Software developer, scrum master, reader, dad, USU sports fan, writer of cursive, stutterer, extrovert nerd.

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

There should be a penalty for requesting a response to an out-of-office notification.

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

If #chewey doesn't do a series of commercials where animals are doing serious work around the office (like the Sports Center commercials with mascots and athletes), I think they're missing an opportunity.

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

Sprinkler timers are the HP Calculators of landscaping equipment. I don't want to re-learn RPN just to water my bushes every other week, yo.

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

There's a fine line between challenging your colleagues and simply agitating the team.

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

Me: "Have you built anything in the last 6 months that included, looked like, encourage, or could be interpreted as horizontal scrolling?"
Front End Candidate: "Yes."
Me: "Have you no shame?"

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

People are leaving their cameras off in virtual meetings more and more these days. I don't think we will appreciate where this takes us. I mean, everyone's different and is comfortable with different things - but I think this will bring about some unintended consequences.

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

Open calendar spots in prime time (8 to 11:30am) are all gone. The land rush is over and you lost. Don't try to start a recurring meeting in there; you're competing with 5 other meetings that have great content and great guests. Don't quintlebook me, bro.

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

I hope my kids appreciate that they grew up with a first.last@gmail address. Helped by a not-so-common last name, but I'm quite proud I made that happen.

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

The number of times I've heard a UX expert say, "We need to stop what we're working on and really understand who the user is," and then leave the team within 2 months.... that's happened a lot of times.

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

Telling someone who has never heard it before that "building widgets is not in itself a goal" is a tough job. But someone has to do it.

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

I can talk for 48 hours straight about the difference between projects, goals, initiatives, programs, and tasks. I guarantee you no one listening will agree with me.

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

It's 2021. I just read a user story that starts with "As a product manager, I want <system> to <do what I want>."

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

Get a nice set of headphones with a great microphone. And turn on your camera.

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

"// TODO: Think of a better way to do this."

-all of us

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

50 Shades of Done. My new horror movie about lingering enterprise IT projects.

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

Your need drops 10 points in importance when labeled as an "ask".

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

Capitalizing IT spend is the death knell of enterprise IT. Capex didn't kill the creativity but it certainly celebrates the passing.

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

Under no circumstances does fish belong in a microwave.

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

Somewhere right now is an XP machine on the fate of which balances at least 50k lives. Today's creativity is tomorrow's legacy blunder.

[Mike Badgett @mkbadg]

Standup attendance is the price of trust for an engineering manager.