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2024

2024-11-19 How to fix a Broken Work-System
2024-11-06 APIs and the Walls They Build - Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?
2024-10-28 Performance is a Function of the Individual and the System
2024-10-07 Book Review - The Adventures of Johnny Bunko
2024-09-10 Repetetive Organizational Strain Injury
2024-09-04 Drucker's Blueprint - Product Owners Build Executive Skills
2024-08-21 Drucker's Blueprint - The Effective Product Owner Works Through Others
2024-08-07 Drucker's Blueprint - The Effective Product Owner Evolves the Process
2024-08-06 Cultivate Employee Judgment
2024-07-02 Book Review - Love And Work
2024-06-04 Custom Software should give your Organization new Verbs!
2024-05-28 On the simple courage of Leadership
2024-05-21 The Power of Checklists
2024-05-07 Story Points are Cost
2024-04-30 The Process of Transformation
2024-04-23 A Secret Tool of Leadership
2024-04-09 Design For Failure
2024-03-05 How do you design a good Retro?
2024-02-13 The moving goalpost of 'Effective'
2024-02-06 Metrics in Tension
2024-01-30 Recent Trends with Copilot

2023

2023-12-05 Transformational Questions
2023-11-21 Communication and Context
2023-11-14 Software And Roads
2023-11-07 Vernacular Software Architecture
2023-10-31 Working Systems and Scrum
2023-10-24 Molecules made with Scrum
2023-10-17 Scrum is Atomic
2023-10-03 How strength becomes agility
2023-09-26 Strength comes from dichotomy
2023-09-19 Agility is an Organism's Characteristic
2023-09-12 Organization as Organism
2023-08-22 Unlocking Effective Collaborative Problem Solving in your Retros
2023-08-01 Organization as Fractal
2023-07-11 On the Nature of Scrum Masters
2023-07-06 Sprint Demo as a Software Test
2023-06-27 It is hard to follow a wavering guide
2023-06-20 Leading with Silence
2023-06-13 Leadership through Documentation
2023-06-05 On Organizing Effective Docs
2023-05-16 Organization as Amplifier
2023-05-09 Cultural Tune-ups
2023-05-06 Show Notes - Leadership is about endurance
2023-05-02 The Prerequisites of Delegation
2023-04-29 Show Notes - Leadership is about systems
2023-04-25 Too much ship, Too little rudder
2023-04-22 Show Notes - Leadership is about time
2023-04-18 Developer Incentives
2023-04-15 Show Notes - Leadership is NOT about you
2023-04-07 Show Notes - Retros are for people
2023-04-04 The relationship between coach and players
2023-03-31 Show Notes - Retros must produce change
2023-03-28 Asking the Right questions for agility
2023-03-24 Show Notes - Retros must be intentional
2023-03-21 DISC Profiles and Trust Behaviors
2023-03-14 On Effective Delegation
2023-03-07 Culture as Reaction to Behaviors
2023-02-21 On AI and the Future of Software Development
2023-02-14 On Learning and Humility
2023-01-10 Where to start a Cybersecurity Transformation?

2022

2022-12-09 On Endurance
2022-10-28 Seeing through their eyes
2022-08-31 Vital Skills of an Effective Agile Coach (From the Developers Point of View)
2022-07-20 Humble Leadership and the Council of Elrond
2022-06-02 How Rest Produces Excellence
2022-04-27 On Thought Leadership
2022-03-18 Mercy in Leadership - A Blinding flash of clarity
2022-02-16 Am I bothering you? Effectively onboarding as a Junior Developer
2022-02-16 Identity Precedes Behavior
2022-02-02 The roots of agility
2022-01-19 How to start building your 'second brain'
2022-01-12 Conversational Bids for High Performing Teams
2022-01-05 Software Engineer - You need a personal knowledge management system
2022-01-03 Announcement - Comments Now Avilable!

2021

2021-12-08 Behaviors Build Culture
2021-11-22 Speaking at THAT Conference in January 2022
2021-11-17 Demystifying Types - Discriminant Unions
2021-09-28 To Automate, or not To Automate - Repairing your care-taker bot
2021-07-19 To Automate, or not To Automate - Becoming a Trusted Team Member
2021-06-28 To Automate, or not To Automate - Data and Information
2021-05-17 To Automate, or not To Automate - Getting Started
2021-05-03 To Automate, or not To Automate
2021-03-31 Code Is Read - Use Less RAM
2021-03-24 Code Is Read - Be Informative
2021-03-17 Functional Alchemy
2021-03-03 Using your tools well
2021-02-17 Who do you trust?
2021-02-10 What does a Cross-Functional Team look like?
2021-01-27 A Primer on how to read code for the Non-Developer
2021-01-13 Upon Review

2020

2020-12-30 The MVP of Agile
2020-12-16 Reflections on Getting Better
2020-12-09 Postman Tutorial Series Now Available
2020-12-02 Quick Update & TIL... agGrid changes the datatype of selected rows
2020-11-17 How do you demo an API Gateway?
2020-11-11 Looking for a new pet? Try an Ocelot!
2020-11-03 All it takes...
2020-10-28 Docker for Dev -The Io Trials
2020-10-12 30 Second Review - Modern Continuous Delivery
2020-10-06 Recordings from Houston TechFest 2020
2020-09-14 Docker for Development
2020-09-07 Leveraging Generics in Typescript
2020-09-01 Speaking at Houston TechFest 2020
2020-08-24 30 Second Review - Functional Programming in 40 minutes
2020-08-17 Repost - Things I learned from giving up my phone for 1 day
2020-08-10 Repost - How do you engage with your thoughts?
2020-08-05 30 Second Review - Building Resilient Frontend Architecture
2020-08-03 Repost - They build it
2020-07-27 Repost - Planting Seeds
2020-07-22 30 Second Review - 10 Agile Practices for Working Together Remotely
2020-07-20 Repost - What can you learn from a Fishbowl?
2020-07-13 Repost - When one teaches two learn
2020-07-08 30 Second Review - The Personal and Career Cost of Agile Adoption
2020-07-06 Repost - A Career step for Knowing
2020-06-29 Repost - How to break into Conference Speaking
2020-06-23 Repost - Tiny Next Steps
2020-06-15 Repost - 3 Phase Prioritization
2020-06-09 Repost - Code is read more often than it is written
2020-05-25 Input, Output, and Invest
2020-05-18 That Potent little Tomato
2020-05-11 How do you 'seize' the day?
2020-05-06 Thoughts on Product Owner interviews a Developer
2020-04-27 Vocabulary for Architecture Planning
2020-04-06 Liberating Structures while Remote
2020-03-30 Opportunity in Crisis
2020-03-23 Take a Virtual Coffee Break
2020-03-16 Training In Conversation? or How to train a Facilitator
2020-03-09 Engaging Facilitators for the Retro en Masse
2020-03-02 Facilitating a Retro en Masse
2020-02-29 TIL...How to nLog UserName
2020-02-24 Facilitating a Fully Remote Retro
2020-02-17 The 2 Minute Rule
2020-02-10 The Form of Every Virtue
2020-02-03 Speaking at AgileShift 2020
2020-01-20 If you want to practice, delete your code
2020-01-13 Just enough here to make something wonderful
2020-01-06 An Angular Preview Mode

2019

2019-12-09 Models are not Reality
2019-12-02 Taking your own advice...
2019-11-18 Mere Exposure
2019-11-13 TIL... How to mock Property Getters in XUnit
2019-11-04 TIL... About SQL Row Number
2019-10-21 True Career Growth
2019-10-14 A Career step for Knowing
2019-10-07 A Career in the Do-Stage
2019-09-30 You are Self-employed. Act like it!
2019-09-23 The Career Rock wall?
2019-09-16 TIL... How to resolve a Webpack Alias for Jest
2019-09-09 A 'Success Sharing' Retro
2019-09-03 TIL... About updating your Packages with NCU
2019-08-26 Three Trips to Market
2019-08-19 The Tale of Hurly Burly
2019-08-06 Tale of the Traveller and the River
2019-07-30 The Tale of the Donut Note
2019-07-22 TIL... IEnumerables and FromUri
2019-07-15 In order to say Yes, You must first say No
2019-07-08 Planting Seeds
2019-07-01 When is it the right time to give the answer?
2019-06-24 The Transition to Coaching
2019-06-17 Liberating Structures at Scale
2019-06-10 TIL... Sagas can call Thunks
2019-06-03 What can you learn from a Fishbowl?
2019-05-28 Shuhari and Scrum
2019-05-20 Encouraging Ownership in your Retro
2019-05-13 Rouse your Retro from its slumber
2019-05-06 Improve your Clarity of Communication
2019-04-29 They build it
2019-04-22 Design your Day... or at least your Commute
2019-04-08 TIL...About Whitespace Nowrap
2019-04-08 TIL...Table Design and Character Limits
2019-04-02 How to break into Conference Speaking
2019-03-25 3 Phase Prioritization
2019-03-18 Things I learned from giving up my phone for 1 day
2019-03-11 How do you engage with your thoughts?
2019-02-28 TIL... a Javascript Unique Filter
2019-02-27 TIL... About jest.resetAllMocks() safety
2019-02-25 They already show you how...
2019-02-18 A Beacon of Hope
2019-02-11 A Developer's Best Friend
2019-02-04 Diet and Exercise
2019-01-28 Your code must tell a story
2019-01-19 Strengths, Weaknesses and Fusions
2019-01-12 Setting others up to succeed
2019-01-05 Ordinary
2019-01-05 Lead Yourself

2018

2018-12-31 Tiny Next Steps
2018-12-22 In a Season of Reflection
2018-12-18 TIL... About jest.resetAllMocks()
2018-12-17 TIL... Promise.all() returns a Promise
2018-12-15 Comments on a 'Pre-Game Routine' for code
2018-12-08 When one teaches two learn
2018-12-03 Migrating to Hexo - Hosting
2018-11-04 Migrating to Hexo - First Theme
2018-10-21 Migrating to Hexo - Conversion
2018-10-14 Migrating to Hexo - Discovery
2018-09-05 New Horizons
2018-09-04 TechFest Fall 2018
2018-06-26 TIL... How to test a window-redirect using Mocks
2018-06-19 TIL... How to run a single suite of Tests in Jest
2018-06-12 TIL... How to Resolve false-positive ESLint Errors
2018-06-05 TIL... How to use ToDictionary
2018-05-22 TIL... How to use Map and Reduce
2018-05-15 TIL... Combine Reducers also splits state...
2018-05-08 Spring 2018 Houston TechFest - Slides
2018-05-01 TIL... How to handle User input with a generic function
2018-04-24 TIL... How to delete a property from a javascript object
2018-04-17 TIL... How to reduce NPM package size
2018-04-10 TIL... How to add Raygun to a React App
2018-04-03 TIL... How to manually redirect within React-Router
2018-03-27 TIL... Another way that IE is 'special'
2018-03-20 TIL... ASP.Net Form Validation Easy-Mode
2018-03-13 TIL... How to debug NHibernate Queries
2018-03-06 TIL ... How to spoof my domain...

2017

2017-04-18 Going where no QA has gone before!
2017-04-11 For the love of the User
2017-04-04 ROI of Training
2017-03-28 What are you looking for in your interview?
2017-03-14 Software Engineers are actually 'Creatives'
2017-03-07 Software Developers are Translators
2017-02-21 A chance encounter: Leadership on a Competition Show
2017-02-14 Having no fear for the outcome of 1000 battles
2017-02-07 Dungeons and Dragons and Leadership Training?
2017-01-31 If you give a Dev a board game...
2017-01-24 To build a better performance review
2017-01-17 Amish Software
2017-01-10 Resuscitating the dread word 'Agile'
2017-01-03 Better tools, or Better skills?

2016

2016-12-27 Code is read more often than it is written
2016-12-13 Do Performance reviews have to be political?
2016-12-06 Where'd my UX go?
2016-11-29 So tell me, Why do we pay you?
2016-11-22 Enter Bullet Journal
2016-11-15 How to increase Team Velocity by 50% III
2016-11-08 How to increase Team Velocity by 50% II
2016-11-01 How to increase Team Velocity by 50% I
2016-10-25 Dev Tool: Atom - Revisited
2016-10-13 Enable Multi-channel communication in your next meeting!
2016-10-11 A Master-Class in Survey Design: MIT's Self-Driving Car Survey
2016-09-13 Pretty Good Encryption
2016-06-23 Defensive Programming Revisited
2016-06-16 Defensive Programming - Software Development - Best Practices
2016-06-09 Learn C# - Principles II
2016-06-02 Learn C# - Principles I
2016-05-26 Innovation Fridays - Learn C#
2016-05-19 Development Tool: Atom
2016-05-12 How to learn any skill in 20 hours
2016-05-05 Licensing Overhaul - Return of the Designer
2016-04-28 Licensing Overhaul - The Whiteboard Strikes Back
2016-04-21 Licensing Overhaul - A New Challenge
2016-04-14 Games for the children of Software Developers
2016-04-07 Development Tool: Jupyter