Happy Friday!When you're in a leadership position, it can feel like all of your time is used up by having to intervene on one crisis or another. Instead of looking ahead and creating opportunities or clearing a path, you have to go to another meeting...
Happy Friday,Change is inevitable. It could affect the direction of work, staff, technologies, laws, ownership, compensation, organization, and more. Great leaders are able to respond to these changes by acknowledging the challenge while rallying tho...
Happy Friday,I'm sure you've seen this—a standards document covered in layers of dust with groups operating to the cry of, "No, this is an exception!" I know I have. More often than not, I see any attempt at standards turn into a case where following...
Happy Friday!Yes, I know you haven't received an email from me in a while. I hope you endured these dark times.I was thinking about a common pattern that I deal with quite a lot, even in my personal life, and I wanted to write about it. I most common...
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...

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.