Tech World on TikTok – Is it for you?
Microsoft Regional Director & MVP Adam Cogan walks your through why you should use TikTok as a techie to promote yourself and your business, and the best way to do it.
10 Security Tips for CEOs and SysAdmins
Get 10 tips from Adam Cogan on how to make your business less inviting to Cyber threats like Ransomware attacks. He breaks it down for CEO’s and SysAdmins.
Tech Debt – Do you know the best way to handle it?
I did a video for SSW TV with Solution Architect, Matt Goldman, to demonstrate the best practices for handling tech debt. Watch it below for some cool tips! For more, check out the rules here: https://rules.ssw.com.au/technical-debt https://www.ssw.com.au/rules/refactor-your-code-and-keep-methods-short
Helping each other in the workplace – Hint: It starts with you
Last month I spoke to you all about Speaking up about Workplace Unfairness… It’s a super important topic for employee wellbeing, and I thought a good follow-up would be to share some tips. We’ve all experienced unfairness, whether it be in the workplace, or in our personal lives. Let’s first look at the impact of […]
Speaking up about unfairness
Would you speak up at work if something happened to you at work that you thought was unfair? Adam Cogan explores how to deal with fairness in the workplace, communication and misunderstandings
Adam’s 2021 Year in Review
Read Adam Cogan’s highlights of running SSW in 2021, a tech company based in Australia.
5 tips for GitHub Issues & Projects
Learn how you can run your development projects more effectively using Github. Adam will show you how to use GitHub Issues and Projects to get the most out of Scrum.
Avoiding Storms with BDD & Automated Testing
With BDD (Behavioural-Driven Development) and Gherkin syntax you can write unit test scenarios in plain text using a few key words (Given, When, Then). Plain text makes the test scenarios easy to understand, even for non-techies.
Avoiding a Jurassic problem – 7 tips for handling errors, before they bite
Error handling doesn’t need to be a nightmare. Follow these 7 tips to manage your errors, identify bugs & keep your projects healthy.
Going handsfree in Office 365 – You should be using Dictate
Microsoft has its own Siri in Office 365 More and more of us are using Siri and Google Assistant, but a very small percentage are taking advantage of the office feature that allows you to draft an email by talking. First some background Over the years I’ve been lucky enough to be in meetings with […]