Happy Friday,I'm sure you've seen this—a standards document covered in layers of dust with groups operating to the cry of, "No, this is an exception!" I know I have. More often than not, I see any attempt at standards turn into a case where following...

Happy Friday!Yes, I know you haven't received an email from me in a while. I hope you endured these dark times.I was thinking about a common pattern that I deal with quite a lot, even in my personal life, and I wanted to write about it. I most common...

Happy Friday,As we enter the holiday season, plenty of news stories indicate that many people will experience stress, fear, and outrage. In case you haven't been keeping up with the news, and I don't blame you, the CEO of UnitedHealth was shot to dea...

Happy Friday!Back in 2011 the world's most popular agile framework, Scrum, changed. You see prior to that, every time the team planned a sprint they were told they had to commit to completing everything they planned. After 2011, the team was asked to...

Happy Friday,I'm going to keep this email pretty short and sweet.I hate crappy meetings, and way too many meetings are, in fact, crappy.Lots of people don't know why they're meeting, the meeting lacks a useful structure, people are disengaged, and th...

Happy Friday,This email is a bit different than others in that I'm going to share a bit about an engagement that recently wrapped up. I think it's interesting, and it shows a bit about how I work with clients in a way that is different than most othe...

Happy Friday!I was thinking the other day about some conversations I've had with former clients and at various jobs, and in my mind, they kept coming back to a single point. There was one behavior that was natural to me that I was encouraging them to...

Happy Friday,I was thinking about a client of mine that is remarkable and abnormal. Something really unique about them is that they are an exception to something I almost always get on a soapbox about.That is, you don't need to sacrifice quality for...

Happy Friday,Today's email is going to get a bit technical. You see, one of the things I wind up teaching teams as they go from good to great is how to test their code better. It turns out that most developers have spent a fraction of energy learning...

Happy Friday!For those of you who don't know, before I became a consultant, I was a job hopper. The longest I spent at any job was two years, and I'd say excluding those two times, my average time at a company was around 8-10 months.My reasons for m...