Harry Azhar How A.I. has changed how we are managing Singapore's tech communities As I write this, DevSG is now about 4 and half years old. Some time in 2018, I spoke to Michael Cheng ( @coderkungfu ) of whether we should have a telegram group for DevSG. He encouraged me to just se...
Harry Azhar What I would do if I was running the FAS The FAS elections were a no contest and Forrest Li and his team went on to win unopposed. One of the team members is Syed Faris, a long-time childhood friend and also leader of the Singa Brigade. I wi...
Harry Azhar More public holidays may be better This was a letter I wrote in response to the Ministry of Manpower's letter on February 14 2015 that tried to justify why Thaipusam was no longer a public holiday. In response, I wrote a fact-based jus...
Harry Azhar 3 lessons I learned from my brother's death I woke up to a text from my father: “Your brother is unconscious.” It was Ramadan. I was five time zones away. In that moment, I felt an overwhelming powerlessness. We had planned to return the follow...
Harry Azhar Validating addresses without spending thousands Accurate delivery addresses are essential in e-commerce. Without it, we would have a lot of failed deliveries and plenty of unhappy customers. Back in 2016, we used Google Maps API for our geocoding f...
Harry Azhar The Daily Standup Agile Disconnect You come to the meeting. Your team leader or scrum master, goes around and asks you to give a status update. 1. "What did you do yesterday?" 2. "What am I doing today?" 3. "What do I need help with?" ...
Harry Azhar Principles to Win at Life I follow Ray Dalio and his blog at Principles.com . According to Ray, you need a set of principles to navigate and win at life. I agree. Principles are ways of successfully dealing with reality to get...
Harry Azhar Cargo-based Story Estimation Technique This article was first published on LinkedIn, on May 28 2020 Frustration with existing story estimation techniques Story estimation is a difficult activity during the sprint planning ceremony. Over my...
Harry Azhar The Scaling Paradox in Logistics The year was 2016. I had merged ALM Group into iCommerce. From a CEO, I became the Director of Technology. We had built our own last mile operating system and it worked well. My CEO came to me that he...
Harry Azhar The Epson Problem for Multicoloured Pens The year was 2000, and I was invited by my school, Singapore Polytechnic, to join an "Entrepreneurship" programme they called "Product & Process Engineering" course. It would be an additional course w...