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• 3X but It's People

  19 June 2022

• What Brown M&M's Taught Me About Software

  Not all software experience is programming.

  17 January 2022

• Job Search Journaling with Obsidian - updated

  A small update to my Obsidian Notebook and templates for tracking a job search

  17 September 2021

• What I Talk About When I Talk About Management

  Agile teams and "management" do not have to be mutually exclusive. Management is essential the long term success of agile teams.

  2 June 2021

• On Pair Programming

  In which I talk about my experience and ideas on how to build a sustainable pairing environment for your team.

  26 May 2021

• My Obsidian for a Job Search

  How to use an Obsidian vault that tracks all of the research, interview notes, and status during a job search.

  1 May 2021

• Cmd-O is My New and Old Friend

  One keystroke for Obsidian search-or-create. This. Is. Awesome.

  1 May 2021

• History of The Big Pencil

  Whenever someone asks me about the bigpencil.net domain, I get to tell this story.

  21 March 2021

• Note Taking in 1-1's

  21 March 2021

• Thoughts on Vaults

  21 March 2021

• Obsidian URLs

  21 March 2021

• Don't Sleep on the Command Palette

  21 March 2021

• Community Plugin: Calendar

  21 March 2021

• Using Tags

  21 March 2021

• Using Links

  21 March 2021

• Core Plugin: Templates

  21 March 2021

• Core Plugin: Daily Journal

  21 March 2021

• Driven to Tests

  2 February 2021

• Start with Retrospectives

  30 November 2020

• The Name Game

  22 November 2020

• Introducing The Continuous Delivery Test

  5 November 2020

• COVID-19-Inspired Meal Planning

  How I experimented to make weekly meal planning work well for our family.

  24 September 2020

• Improving Standups

  One simple technique to tame your suddenly unwiedly daily standup meeting.

  22 September 2020

• Foo Fighters 1995

  15 September 2020

• Drake Your Job

  In which I use math to evaluate if I should switch jobs and which job I should accept.

  3 August 2018

• Goodbye Chris Cornell

  18 May 2017

• Goodbye Jonathan Demme

  26 April 2017

• How One Funny Email Almost Changed My Career

  How to write a goodbye email that people remember for years.

  6 October 2016

• How We XP: Develop & Deploy

  A short summary of how I think about the path of features from development, through Continuous Integration, and into Production.

  1 November 2015

• Bose Customer Service

  SPOILER ALERT: Sometimes big companies don't suck.

  21 April 2011

• Kids & Teachable Moments

  In which my son learns about lost luggage.

  24 March 2011