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...

Making great teams takes a lot, but in this article I want to dive into three ingredients. A great team knows they have an impact on decisions, a strong sense of team, and they are relentless in pursuing mastery.

Out of a million things I learned in my career in software, there are three uncommon lessons I learned: Slow down, sleep well, and experiment.

Refactoring to many teams means clean up the code, but they've also been burned by long refactoring projects that didn't improve much. In this article I'll share the basic dos and don'ts about refactoring to consistently improve code with low risk.

Can AI replace one of the oddest roles in agility? In this post I review a script to facilitate sprint planning to see how it compares.