Microsoft Regional Director | Scrum Master | Speaker
Adam Cogan General, SSW Projects, User Experience best practice, customer experience, Customer Journey, Design, landing pages, Redesign, UI, UX, websites 0 Comments
SSW’s new homepage is live after a UX and UI redesign focused on clarity, trust and conversion. See how comparative research, stronger hierarchy and progressively introduced proof turned a crowded homepage into a deliberate customer journey.
Adam Cogan General, SSW Projects, SSW Rules CMS, Content Editing, Content Management, Large Migrations, Migration Stories, Migrations, TinaCMS 0 Comments
We rebuilt our Rules editing experience so updates are fast, safe, and painless, no more unreliable saves or 20-minute deploys. Now changes go live in ~30 seconds, with review-friendly workflows that keep quality high.
Adam Cogan AI, General, SSW Projects 1 Comment
For us Aussies, December ended in a way that changed the tone of the whole year. The Bondi Beach mass shooting targeted a Jewish celebration and killed 15 people. This one was close to home (literally), as I live a couple of beaches down from Bondi and work with some Jewish team members at SSW.
Adam Cogan General, SSW Projects, SSW Rules 0 Comments
It’s no secret within SSW that I’m proud of my biggest open-source project, the “SSW Rules.” I think there’s several pillars that have allowed SSW to build enterprise solutions for 25+ years, including luck, and one of those pillars is the SSW Rules. 🗝️ Back in the early days of SSW, I needed a way
Adam Cogan Family, General, SSW Projects, Tina CMS 2024 Retrospective, AI, Speaking, SSW TV, TinaCMS, year in review 0 Comments
It’s time to discuss 2024’s highs and lows. Definitely, the high was the successful acquisition of TinaCMS – it is a product we’ve used and loved for a while and it was great fun to work with their team and get to travel to plenty of conferences to promote it. I have mixed feelings about
Adam Cogan .NET, .NET8 Migration, General, SSW Projects .NET 8, .NET 8 Migration, Large Migrations, Migration, Migration Stories 0 Comments
The current software development challenge for Microsoft developers, is getting large .NET projects into .NET 8 (soon to be .NET 9). Modernizing the codebase is crucial as developers need efficient code, maintainable code and a scalable app. At SSW we have been on this migration journey for a bunch
Adam Cogan .NET, .NET Core, SSW Projects .NET, .NET 8, Migration, Migrations 0 Comments
Over the last 12 months, I’ve been involved in several large .NET 8 Migrations. Diving into .NET 8 has been quite the journey and an amazing experience. Migrating to .NET 8 brings better cross-platform compatibility (welcome Macbooks for development and Linux for deployment) and improved performance
Adam Cogan Family, General, SSW Projects, SSW TV 2023, AI, Retrospective, Retrospective 2023, review, SSW TV, year in review 1 Comment
As 2023 comes to a close, Adam Cogan looks back on the year that was and goes through his highlights
Adam Cogan AI, Azure, ChatGPT, General, GitHub, SSW Projects AI, Azure, Azure DevOps, Brainstorming, Collaboration, Copilots, Dynamics 365, Outlook, Retreat, Semantic Kernel, teamwork 0 Comments
Find out how to utilize the smart people in your company to reduce their pain and create new ideas
Adam Cogan General, SSW Projects Technical Debt 0 Comments
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-sh