I talked with a friend this week who was asking for some advice about if they should apply to some jobs they found recently. Before deciding now if they want the job, I suggested that they start with treating them as practice. We then talked about so...

Almost everywhere does something like Scrum these days or at least is familiar with it. Having said that, if you survey folks---and I have, you’ll find that most regard Scrum with ambivalence or animosity. Aside from consultants and trainers, of cour...

Most people I meet on their path to getting the job they want in software show me a resume that looks like something they either haven’t touched since school or full of fancy design aspects and empty when it comes to content. I quickly explain the c...

The other day someone was asking for an activity to help experience what happens with smaller batch sizes. He might also have said limiting work-in-process, but I do have a small activity that I do to help people experience the impact of limiting how...

Last night I saw a tweet fly by about a new book coming out that was all about the technical resume. I found it fitting since today I want to start promoting my first-ever class on the same thing. They mentioned it includes advice from 200+ recruiter...

Early in my career constraints were something that filled me with dread. They spoke only to what I could not do. They held me back. They left me bound and unable to see a path forward. Constraints are all around us. They are simply a boundary or limi...

I was sitting down having my coffee this morning and thinking of all the stuff that goes on in most companies that I simply don't have to deal with, and one thing came to the forefront of my mind. Today, I want to write about one of those lessons lea...

It winds up for almost everyone that you’ll have more than one job in your career. This is especially true in software development. For myself, I changed jobs nearly every single year! The shortest time I was at a company was five months, and the lon...

Earlier today, I was in a conversation with Jabe Bloom about architecture. In my slowness to figure out what we were talking about, I thought we were talking about something else entirely. Jabe recently posted an image to twitter about architecture,...

“It’s a six-figure piece of paper,” is what one of my clients said about their resume not too long ago. They started their career from scratch within the past three years and never used a portfolio to get their jobs. If you’re ready to get back weeks...