Happy Friday,Last week, I wrote a high-level week-by-week roadmap of my approach to building exceptional teams in 3 months. I want to now turn my attention to the consequences of having one of these teams in your organization.In my first email, I wro...

Happy Friday,Continuing on from my last email, where I wrote about the attributes of exceptional teams, I'm going to write about my high-level roadmap to how I go about building exceptional teams in less than three months.Week 1 - SurveyingMy first w...

Happy Friday,I haven't forgotten about you. I've been busy with my other venture, reko.day, beekeeping, and summer vacation!I saw some excitement on LinkedIn the other day as some friends started hyping up a webinar that didn't look interesting to me...

Happy Friday,It's been a while! I'm hard at work launching my other business venture, Reko Day. Check it out if you have a minute, and let me know what you think.Someone in a Slack I'm in asked for resources on establishing working agreements. Strang...

Happy Friday,As many of us are going into a holiday weekend, I thought I'd give you something to think about for a minute.At various points in our careers, we make some decisions about what we believe in that shape who we are professionally. Often th...

Happy Friday,I hope you had a great holiday weekend for those of you in the US. I've been very busy with the end of my children's school year and my beekeeping season starting up.Did I tell you I caught a swarm of bees? I have three hives this year!I...

Happy Friday,I was on a call with a client recently, and they were showing the tests they wrote for some user stories.I often ask to look at tests with teams new to writing automated tests consistently.Oddly, that seems to be everyone.Months ago, thi...

Happy Friday,Last night I was working on my beehives until 11 PM. It was raining too. Now, us beekeepers are odd folks, but working on hives at night in the rain is not how most anyone would choose to spend their evenings.You see, my hives died over...

Happy Friday,It's farmer's market season here, which means it probably is for a number of you and will soon be for even more. I hope you all can get out there and enjoy the experience of walking around and finding local goods and produce.For me, this...

Happy Friday,Years ago, when I first started to attend conferences, the hot topic was the Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Most everything that was in his book has now become a common language and common knowledge, but rare practice.For the record, there a...