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Beekeeping

Beekeeping Lesson - Cub Scouts

North American Honey Bee Expo 2023

Queen Rearing with Corey Stevens

Careers

Essays

3 Alternatives to Saying, “I Don’t Know” In Interviews

Acing Remote Interviews

Apply to Jobs You Don’t Want

Habit: Asking For Help

Avoiding a Common Mistake Searching for Jobs

The Basics of Salary Negotiation

Behind the Scenes of a Technical Interview

Blame the Intern

Details and Options

Enough Tutorials Already!

4 Reasons You Didn’t Get The Job

Habit: Checking-In

Habit: Update your Resume

How I’m Building My First Online Class

I’ll Never Be Good Enough

How I’m Creating an Online Class So You Can Too

The Importance of Breaks

Imposter Syndrome After a Decade

One Resume to Rule Them All

Practice Those Interviews

Resume Double Duty - Getting a Raise

Should I Go Back to School?

What’s My Value

Six-Figure Resume: Build a Resume With This Successful Format

Six-Figure Resume: Avoid These Resume Mistakes That Are Keeping You From Getting Interviewed

Six-Figure Resume: Building a Resume With No Dev Experience? No Problem!

Six-Figure Resume: How To Put Your Resume To Work And Get Interviewed and Promoted

Six-Figure Resume: Hey Devs! Your Portfolio Won’t Get You a Job, But Your Resume Will!

The Cold Interview

The Impossible Bar of a Professional

The Interviewing Cast

The Ups and Downs of Recruiters

Thinking About a Portfolio Site?

Want to Get More Interviews?

What Lifestyle Do You Want?

What Recruiters Don’t Tell You

When It Hurts Too Much, Leave

When Keywords Unlock Your Resume

Write a Resume that Doesn’t Suck

Consulting

Case Studies

Case Study: 6-Day Work Week

Case Study: Building a SaaS Business From the Ground Up

Case Study: Result-Oriented Transformation

Case Study: Skynet or Bust

Journal

Leadership

3 Questions to Better Actions

3 Tips for Guerrilla Facilitation

4 Steps to Better Action

A Blind Retrospective

A Comment on Commenting

A List of Books that Made a Difference

A Short List of Unhealthy Beliefs

A Vignette of Kaizen

Agile Isn't Dead, But Your Career Might Be

Agile Isn't Dead, But Your Career Might Be

Agile Transformation in 4 Acts

AI: Use With Care

An Open Letter to the Agile Industry

Are Scrum Masters Worth It?

The Best Money I Spent in 2018

Better Communication for Busy Leaders

Book Review - The No Asshole Rule

A List of Books that Made a Difference

Bounded and Centered

Bringing Conversation to a Point Using ORID

Make Your Next Build vs. Buy Decision Like Fight Club

Technical Leader's Strategic Advantage: Building Self-Managed Teams

Can AI Replace a Scrum Master?

Can You Hard-Boil an Egg?

Can You Hear Me Now?

Case Study - Transforming A Team in Three Months

Choosing a Tech Stack

How I Cut Development Time to 1/3rd

Cost Is A Constraint, Not A Concern

Crash Course in Constraints

Dear Architects, Do Better

Death to Code Reviews

Deciding Fast and Deciding Slow

Deciding Fast and Deciding Slow

A Developer’s Guide To a Stand-Up That Doesn’t Suck

Developers Working Late

Does Theory of Constraints Make Sense for Software?

Dos and Don’ts for Decision Making

The Dos and Don'ts of Refactoring

The Emperor’s New Clothes

Example of Horizon Planning

Exploiting Opportunity

Freelancers, Contractors, and Agencies, Oh My!

From Strategy to Story

Get Started With Development and Product Metrics

Getting Started With Pomodoro

The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the Popular Agile Frameworks

What the Greeks and Romans Can Teach Us About Design

Hacking My Productivity

Hacking Procrastination

High-Performing Team Series - Why Fuss over Teams?

How I Conquered My Inbox

How I Define a Team

How I Set Goals

How Long Should We Meet?

How To Delegate

How to Estimate Anything Quickly

How to Introduce an Activity as a Facilitator

How to Learn What Your Team is Capable of

How To Make Software Development Predictable

HPF - Good vs. Bad Teams

High-Performing Team Series - Why Fuss over Teams?

I Hate Efficiency

I Never Said That!

The Innovation Paradox: The Many Minds of A Leader

Invisible Member

It’s Always My Last Day

Knowing the Details and Trusting the Team

Make Your Next Build vs. Buy Decision Like Fight Club

How to Learn What Your Team is Capable of

Learning Under Pressure

Making A Case to Your Manager

Managing a Self-Managed Team

Maximize Your Time With Pomodoro

Missing Skill: Facilitation

A Model For High Performing Teams

Running the Name Game

Normalization of Deviance

On Being Better Gardners

On the Front Lines

One Metric to Start

One Tip to Make Feedback Less Terrible

People and System Thinking

Permission to Choose

Piercing The Veil With Failure

Poorly Built Racecars Don't Win

Top Reasons to Try Pair-Programming

Problem, Observation, Solution

Proximity and Change

Quality Last Is a Stupid Strategy

Quick and Effective Delegation for Busy Leaders

The Red Bead Experiment

Refactoring Makes You Happy! Do it!

Release First, Develop Second

Scrum Masters Make People Out of Employees

Seven Weird Lessons From the Fortune 100

Sex, STDs, and Software

A Short List of Unhealthy Beliefs

Six Estimation Techniques

So You Want to be an Architect?

Start Less, Finish More

Stop Doing Things the Hard Way

Strategy and Tactics

Taking a Stance

Taking Two Bites Of an Ice Cream Cone

Tales of Efficiency

Technical Leader's Strategic Advantage: Building Self-Managed Teams

The Addictiveness of Failure

Book Review - The Checklist Manifesto

The Dos and Don'ts of Refactoring

The Life-Changing Magic of Flat Code

The One Remote Person

The Power of Personal Responsibility

The Red Bead Experiment

The Ultimate Guide to Effective Horizon Planning

There Is No Best

Thinking on Theory of Constraints

Three Column Retrospectives Are Killing Your Teams

Three Costly Mistakes of Technical Teams

Three Reasons Scrum May Not Be Working Out For You

Three Things I Wish I Knew as a Developer

Tick-Tock of the Agile Clock

A Tidy Home - A slicing and planning game

Tidying Up Agile

Two Types of Motivation Every Leader Should Know

Two Types of Motivation Every Leader Should Know

Two Underdeveloped Leadership Skills

The Ultimate Guide to Effective Horizon Planning

Unleashing Constraints

We Ain’t Got Time for That

We Are All Balloons in Boxes

Tell Me About Yourself

What Happens After Standup?

What Makes Good Teams Great

What Might We Learn From Parler?

What the Greeks and Romans Can Teach Us About Design

When Abandoning Code Reviews Leads to Better Results

When Flow-State is Dangerous

When is Done, Done? ⏲

When It Comes to Knowledge Transfer

When Performance Matters

When to Break the Rules

When to Stop Work

When You're Asked to Help Someone

When You're Asked to Help Someone

My Love Affair With “Tell, Don’t Ask”

Work Early to Work Remote

Some Work From Home Tips

You're Agile, Now What?

Newsletters

I got dirt under my nails from my digital garden

The 5-Minute Rule ⏰

The story of the Mai Tai 🍹

Odds 'n Ends

Digital Gardens

Product Management

Can You Go Too Far With Your Product?

Estimate Value Not Complexity

Features and Gambling

For Sale: Software, Never Used

Get People on the Same Page in Under a Minute

Getting Started Using the RICE Prioritization Method

Getting Started With the Lean Canvas

The Hardest Question

How To Break Work Down

Magic Quadrants in Product Development

Make One Small Adjustment to Your Roadmaps

On the Half-life of Enthusiasm

Prioritizing for Feedback

Project Manager -> Product Owner

The Quick and the Dead of Prioritization

Scoping Technique - Impact Mapping

So You Want To Launch a Product

Stop Planning and Start Learning

The Biggest Reason Product Owners Fail

The Shapes of User Stories

What is the Project Timeline

What Almost Every Example of User Stories Gets Wrong

Why I Killed Two Products

reko.day

AI Slop

Marketing Strategy Ideas

Talks, Podcasts, and Other Appearances

Podcasts

Dev Journey - From One Extreme to the Next

Develomentor Podcast - Agile Coach and Freelance Consultant

Lean Change - Living Through a Safe Rollout

This is Retrospective Facilitation - Becoming a Retrospective Facilitator

Talks

Become a Senior in 2 Years

Don't Start Work, Start Teams

How To Introduce TDD Even If You Don't Code

How to Test a Ball of Mud

Learning Under Pressure - Scala in a Hurry

Tune Up Your Stand-Up

Career Services

Fieldstones and Ideas

Land the Job - Online Class

Technical Leadership

Product Management

Talks, Podcasts, and Other Appearances

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These are a selection of results I've achieved. They range from technical work all the way up to transformation of Fortune 10 companies.

6-Day Work Week
Building a SaaS Business From the Ground Up
Result-Oriented Transformation
Skynet or Bust

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