Almost every morning I ride an indoor bike for 20-30 minutes. I do email and catch up on reading. At 7:35 AM each weekday I get a reminder that the daily Release Review Report is ready. It shows the previous day’s releases on our platform. Stephen Sigwart, our CTO and I review this each day and record that review in our database to satisfy PCI requirements.
I was reminded of my college coach, Art Gulden (here is a great article on Coach), this past week because we hit review #2000. Yes, that means that Stephen and I have done 2,000 daily reviews since we started this practice in 2017.
The reason it reminded me of Coach was that his basic methodology was for us to run 5 miles each morning and 10 miles each afternoon. As it turns out, the same coaching philosophy that transformed so many of us from average runners into pretty good ones works wonders in business, too. This daily review of the releases our development team puts out for our customers is part of RunSignup’s 5 and 10.
This morning’s review had 15 releases from yesterday, including (these are actually new versions of our software that get released so customers get upgrades between clicks many times each day):
- Sales tax rate updates
- Fundraising contact list for Email
- Validate JWT On Ticket Event Calc. Store Image Item
- Include verification code in confirmation email manage ticket link
- Race registration fancy UTF-8 letters fix
- Improved layout of Race Checkin Report
- Added keyboard shortcut to dashboard menu search
- Ticket reg path layout improvements
- Chatbot Content Quick Fix
- Added chatbot base prompts admin page
- Remove affiliate setup code
- Member org claim user improvements
A relatively boring list, but all part of our daily 5 and 10 to get better and better.