I received an excellent question recently and wanted to publish the question and my answer. If a project has deadlines for features that will be ready by a specific date and the team works in agile, plans 2 week long sprints of work, sprint plan, etc. How/When do the team…

I have been doing intermittent fasting for a couple years now. I forget which resource I happened upon first, but we’ll start with Angus Barbieri. Scottish man Angus Barbieri (1939–7 September 1990) fasted for 382 days, from June 1965 to July 1966. He lived on tea, coffee, soda water, and…

Certain feedback can feel difficult to give directly to a team mate. In an organization, it can seem less difficult to relay it through the recipient’s manager. Though a manager is a great resource, relaying feedback through them can create a dangerous game of telephone. The recipient of the relayed…

A colleague of mine was recently charged with taking on a Product Owner role. He is well educated in Scrum process and has plenty of product experience, but wanted to talk through what Product Ownership looks like. I have been working through A Scrum Book: Spirit of the Game with…

Stay at a company long enough and sooner or later you will run into long standing problems or initiatives no one believes are actually going to be resolved. These problems are joked about in private settings hidden from executive leadership. I ran into this exact experience and there was no…

What is a DevOps Engineer? When people are hiring for DevOps, they tend to mean a few things: Continuous Integration: Automation in compiling the application; downloading libraries and running tests. Continuous Deployment: Deploying the Compiled Application safely and automatically Infrastructure Engineering: Right sizing server infrastructure and monitoring Platform Delivery: Installation and ongoing configuration of all…

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Create a Page to All Be On Everyone would surely agree it is important to be on the same page while working together in any context. It seems obvious to claim value in coherence. But how do you get on the same page? You create a page to all be on! Capture What the Last Person Told You My favorite way to generate page…

I have been in too many discussions about the trouble of handing development teams “finished designs”. Development teams are the first to meet the reality of technical translation limitations and run into all the problems that were always there all along. But this post isn’t an inquiry into the problems…