The Basics of Salary Negotiation
15 Jan 2020 | Career
One of the golden rules of negotiation is whoever speaks first loses. What are the other rules that exist that, if you use them well, will lead to at least a ten percent increase in your salary?
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Choosing a Tech Stack
26 Nov 2019 | Leadership
Not too long ago, I was involved with a new team starting up. The team went through the training and sat at their desks, ready to work on their problem of replacing an existing system. They had a critical decision to make, what would their tech stack be?
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Mechanics and Alchemists
05 Nov 2019 | Archives
Today is the first day of Lean Agile KC 2019, and the opening keynote was from Esther Derby. Her talk was about change, and how it works in an organization as opposed to how it is often treated like a machine.
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Can You Hear Me Now?
05 Sep 2019 | Leadership
Its all-to-often that during meetings, people make numerous decisions and aren’t communicated out. Maybe a new strategic direction was set for a few teams or its time to experiment with agility, we’re going to try OKRs, or a new set of people are being brought on. The decision could be anything, but I guess that one of those probably fits a simple set of criteria.
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It’s Always My Last Day
15 Jul 2019 | Leadership
This past Friday, I said goodbye to a Scrum Master. They were contracting at the same company I was and found a different opportunity. During one of our conversations, I asked, “So, did is there any transition?” Their response was a laughing, “No.” But what does a transition look like for someone that coaches teams?
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From Strategy to Story
01 Jul 2019 | Leadership
I often wind up with clients who are so fixated on keeping their teams working that they don’t have a clear strategy or vision that they can communicate. They lose themselves in the world of finding more work for the teams to consume. For the few that have a vision or a strategy, there is a considerable gap between that vision or strategy and the work that is happening.