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...

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.