04 Mar 2020
I have a three-month-old and a four-year-old, and that means I don’t have a lot of time to myself after I come home from work. Most days I only get about two hours to myself, so I have a real need to stay focused and organized, or I’ll never make progress on my personal and business goals. I’ve tried lots of things over the years, but this is what I’m attempting now.
03 Feb 2020
There is a funny thing that happens when consultants are around each other. They keep using big important words. One such set of words that get thrown around a lot is strategy and tactics.
31 Jan 2020
Here’s the situation, you come across some code and you have to start making sense of it. As you read the code you begin to build a mental model of how the pieces work, and then slowly but surely you get enough of it in your head that you see potential bugs or areas to improve.
20 Jan 2020
No matter where you are in your job, you will have great ideas. How do you get them to your manager in a way that they hear it?
26 Nov 2019
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?
05 Nov 2019
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.
