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.” B...

Today the company that produces Basecamp and Hey released an announcement to the world about how they will be changing direction in their leadership and culture. If you want a sense of the response, listen to the podcast some of its employees produce...

Okay, so I’m old. I’ll be forty in two years, and writing that is enough to put me in my place. At the same time, I’m experiencing a lot of imposter syndrome in similar ways when I’ve started my career or transitioned to new ones. What’s going on? We...

I get asked pretty regularly by people about how to go about building a portfolio site. My controversial answer is, “Don’t.” What I want to talk about today is why I recommend limiting your time making a portfolio site and using that time on other th...

The bliss of flow is something countless other developers and I work hard to create every day. The effort of our mentally taxing work relaxes, and magic happens as we lose ourselves in this wondrous state. Though, as the years went on, I concluded th...

Time to address one of the most common questions I get from my clients, “What if I don’t have development experience?” We All Start There We all got jobs without prior development experience, which means you can too. The trick is knowing how to lever...

Years ago, I worked with a team, and they showed some remarkable results after I suggested some pretty bold changes. On that team, there was one person who continued to work the way they always did. The team was frustrated with them and eventually ex...

I find myself in an interesting position where I’m doing good work, but my client isn’t entirely on board with the results yet. Now, this is a problem I’ve created as a consultant by not keeping people aligned, but it happens. I’m confronted with two...

"You're going to what?!" the director asks me. "I'm going to let them choose. It will be optional," I affirm. "But what if they just stop!? That seems really risky," "Well, if I do my job right, that won't be an issue. Give me three months." I have c...

A new team, a high-profile project, and a commitment to doing the best. They build software that delights people in their demos and sprint reviews. Every project status is green. Until the end. They are months away from getting their code into produc...