Happy Friday!Also, happy July 4th weekend! I thought I'd share an update on my bees. I set up my first two bee-hives at the end of March, and I've been checking on them every week. Still, as a new beekeeper, practical experience matters and I've made...

Happy Friday,It seems that no matter how many times I work with groups or even the same ones there's a question that will always come up that has to do with getting a team to do more than one thing at a time.I take a pretty firm stand on this subject...

Happy Friday!So there is a community I'm a part of that has daily topic discussions around engineering leadership. Yesterday they posted their own internal engineering benchmark studies and I thought I'd share it with you.You can find it here.I took...

Happy Friday!This week I had to kill a product. In a way, it feels like the first time I've ever done this, but when I think back there have been a lot of close calls over the years. So I thought I'd share a few examples and the lesson I've learned f...

Happy Friday,I'm going to admit it, I don't spend much time on social media or reddit or any of that stuff. TikTok, however, makes up for it.One interesting thing about TikTok is how good it is at curating the videos to show you. For me, I get all so...

Happy Friday!It seems like for the past few weeks it has been raining non-stop where I am. I don't mind the rain, but it keeps me from checking on my bees which I don't care for.Also, for the past few weeks, maybe months, it seems that most of my tim...

Happy Friday!As I step back a moment and look at the trends in software products over the decade or so I've been at this there are a few things that have more or less remained constant.Expectations only increaseCapabilities don'tWhat I mean is one go...

Happy Friday the 13th!I was thinking about a conversation I was having about when groups do re-orgs and some articles people shared that they liked when I started thinking of all the re-orgs I've been through or helped with.Its more than I care to ad...

Happy Friday!I sat down at my computer this morning wondering what I'd write about today and a conversation I had with a senior leader came into my head that I'm going to share a bit about.We were talking about ideas and issues and one of the people...

Happy Friday!I was working with a client and over the few months we worked together the teams went through a fairly rapid set of changes. When the dust settled, they started improving through retrospectives.For a while at least.They ultimately experi...