**Scattered across almost any consultant's PowerPoint decks will be several quotes. There's the infamous, "If we asked what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse," and "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth," and the one I'll...

I try to focus my writing on presenting a situation or problem and a way to move forward from it. In this article, I'm going to only focus on the problematic beliefs I encounter in organizations and individuals. The entire point of this little articl...

Everyone thinks they have the answer to what will improve things, and technical teams are often very vocal about their ideas. Yet, in my experience, many technical teams advocate for things that can be far more costly than what is happening today, an...

While I would never say that I was some rockstar developer in my prime, I seemed to hold my own well, and folks seemed to regard my work well and ask my advice. So, I thought I'd share some of the less obvious lessons I learned along the way. Obvious...

Some friends were discussing a post by Jeff Sutherland about how AI will make estimation easy. What I thought was odd about that post was looking at where AI would begin to replace various Scrum activities, so I thought I’d plug in a prompt to see wh...

There are so many sources that I draw on for any given engagement with a client, but I thought it might be interesting to maybe put a list of books that I feel impacted me the most. This won't be completely exhaustive, but hopefully gives you some mo...

All over LinkedIn, my feed is full of people saying Agile is dead or that Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches aren't needed. I understand both the sentiment and the clickbait nature of this kind of headlines. Though if it were clickbait, people would say...

In my last years of college, I took a lot of history classes, and I wound up loving them. So much so that I thought I should have pursued a minor. While this doesn't make me an expert, I learned some things that stick out to me, and there is one I'm...

Many organizations I consult with wish they could move faster. These organizations also cite how long it takes to make simple decisions as a huge bottleneck and would love to find ways to remove or expedite the decisions. In fact, when I consult, one...

Refactoring is one of those terms that shows up almost daily with engineering teams, yet for most, the definition is pretty loose. What's more, that loose definition leads to actions that often have undesirable outcomes, delays, and arguments about h...