Yesterday morning, I was chatting with Tom Meloche, and in the course of the conversation, we came up with over a week’s worth of article...

If you are an individual contributor, your supervisor probably has a sizeable group of direct reports. The supervisor’s main...

Business cycles are always brutal. They are the ultimate test of any business fad. These days, Agile is all the rage. Many of my friends...

I was once a member of a product team that developed service layer components for a much larger system. This system was home to lots of...

Periodically, I remind myself that everything I know exists between my two ears. Nobody else has constructed a mind just like mine....

I’ve come to accept that I’m an old guy now. Old guys don’t have the same capacity to absorb and retain intricate details as we did when...

The progenitors of the Agile Manifesto had a focused goal in mind: building better software. As with any good idea, people began to see...

My associate Tom Meloche has been writing about politics lately, so I’ve decided to weigh in myself. As you know, if you read my...

Google offered to help me write this article, but I figured a human ought to do this one alone. I may get some help from Grammarly, but...

If you’re like me, you have experienced the disorientation of learning that a long-held belief is wrong. It takes a minute, doesn’t it?...

In the quest to deliver customer values better, faster, and more efficiently, agile teams work to improve continually. The retrospective...

Imagine that you’ve been working for several days on a particularly sticky problem. You would have consulted your coworkers, but you are...

If you have been involved in building products, you have been there. Crunch time! Months or years of preparation have led to this one...

Like many of us, I have read extensively about the impending AI apocalypse. When you view content, how do you know if an actual human...