Happy Friday!In the mix of all the AI conversation, there is a common thread about how much output it can produce. Other threads are about the quality of it and its consequences. In software, this has led to a lot of conversations about whether certa...

Happy Friday!Sometimes I feel like there's a topic I just need to rant about, and about a month ago, I wanted to rant about dependencies.So I did.YouTubehttps://youtu.be/WAZrZSt6tO4?si=71-xhRlzU2nn72veI think the reason why is that I keep seeing folk...

Happy Friday,This week I moved most of my beehives to a new location. I knew it would be challenging, but it turns out that was me being optimistic. As I sit here this morning, I'm reminded of how similar this is to new projects.To move beehives, you...

Happy Friday,In a perfect world, things work out the way we wish they did. You might know someone who has a life like that. Unfortunately, most of us aren't that person, and things don't go the way we want.We get some choices when things go poorly. O...

Happy Friday,Yesterday I hosted the webinar, "Lies Our Engineering Metrics Tell Us."You can watch the replay of it here.You may have noticed that it's a new YouTube channel. I created it today to slowly move my leadership/technical content there to g...

Fancy title, but it is a simple idea. Here’s a publication from NASA on the topic as it relates to the Challenger disaster. In a nutshell, the concept might be explained by a pothole. Imagine a pothole in your parking lot. It has been there for years...

So a lot of us are at home and adjusting while there is also much uncertainty in what the future holds. There’s a small idea that I want to offer as we get through these changes right now and in your career. Working From Home For everyone working fro...

The alarm goes off in the morning, and as usual, I begin my day by putting on my clothes. Now, I’ve been putting on my clothes for a long time, and I like to do things efficiently, so I put my clothes on in the following order: Shoes Socks Underwear...

I try to focus my writing on presenting a situation or problem and a way to move forward from it. In this article, I'm going to only focus on the problematic beliefs I encounter in organizations and individuals. The entire point of this little articl...