Scrum Masters Make People Out of Employees
04 Jan 2016 | Leadership
Scrum Masters are farmers whose seeds are employees and whose crops are people.
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Refactoring Makes You Happy! Do it!
22 Dec 2015 | Leadership
Every software developer and engineer I’ve ever worked with, myself included, has remarked at how romantic it is to do yard work.
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Entrepreneur Activity: Say Yes
15 Dec 2015 | Archives
I thought I’d try something a little ambitious and catalog activities that can help people in their endeavors to be better entrepreneurs. So the first activity I’ll write about, I will call, “Say Yes.”
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Making Stand-Ups Better
20 Nov 2015 | Archives
I think most people in software are familiar with the daily stand-up meeting. Everyone literally stands up and then goes around the room answering three basic questions:
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People and System Thinking
04 Nov 2015 | Leadership
I am a big believer in system thinking. This can be pretty simply defined as believing that people are doing the best that they can, and that the system they are required to operate in is what dictates the results. Another way of looking at it is realizing that if you put any person in the same situation in a given system, you will almost always get the same results.
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Fishing and Iterations
17 Oct 2015 | Archives
A really good friend of mine was visiting and we were just catching up. We were talking about what things we have been doing with our time and we both surprised one another by saying that we have both taken an interest in Fly Fishing.