Happy Friday!"I need to get a better sense of our group's capacity," is a common request clients have of me. While answering this question is not really very interesting, I think the existence of the request is and the topic of today's email.One reas...

Happy Friday!Yesterday, I went and split my beehives. This was actually the first time I did this, so while the process seemed normal, it was a little challenging since it was my first time.To prepare for this, I re-read some old material and looked...

Happy Friday!One of the things I've done my whole career is try to quantify the impact of improvements.I distinctly remember obsessing over the size of the iPhone app builds I created and working hard to optimize the assets to keep the size below a c...

Happy Friday,Why is change so hard?One reason is that it takes time for folks to adjust to a new condition, and that time of adaptation is often unpleasant.Another reason, and the one I want to talk about today, is that we don't often pay attention t...

Happy Friday,Earlier this week, a friend showed me a video in which a CIO explained how they view setting up analytics for an organization. In a nutshell, they said that while people mostly understand it as five high-level steps, he cautioned that cr...

Happy Friday,Today, my son won an award at school for exemplifying one of the character attributes they're trying to teach. The award was for assuming positive intent. As the principal explained positive intent to the school and parents, I had to hid...

Happy Friday!There's a very long-standing topic that folks have pretty strong opinions on, but rarely have I seen much consensus around, and that is how to organize teams and groups.I thought I'd write a bit about the topic from what I've measured an...

Happy Friday,I've been busy applying to conferences, and there is a topic that I feel I'm perfectly suited to speak on, but I always hesitate to submit the talk. The talk is about how to build really good teams that build bug-free software in 1/3rd o...

Happy Friday,I admit I'm guilty of daydreaming when I drive. I don't know what other folk's daydreams are, but many of mine are around my professional life and imaginary client conversations. That was weird to admit.Anyway, in one of these conversati...

Happy Friday!I heard enough feedback on my last newsletter that I made it a formal post on my blog. You can find the link below if you want to share it with folks.I'm spending more time on LinkedIn lately than I'd like. I am not a social media person...