A couple of years ago a Person of Power (PoP) [1]In most cases the PoP has been an executive, but sometimes it’s a department manager with some extra budget or a division manager trying to make a name for themselves. The point is, it’s … Continue reading came to one of my teams and said that … Continue reading “Chocolate bridges”

Black lives matter. Black men’s lives matter. Black women’s lives matter. Black children’s lives matter. Black disabled lives matter. Black LGBTQ+ lives matter. Black trans women’s lives matter. Black lives carrying guns matter. Black lives carrying toy guns matter. Black lives carrying cell phones matter. Black lives “mouthing off” to cops matter. Black lives charged … Continue reading “Black Lives Matter”

This is something that helps every Agile team I work with but especially the distributed ones: make stories as small as possible — especially where “as small as possible” means “the smallest amount of work I have to explain to someone else”. If your UX person is in Location A, your Java Developer is in … Continue reading “Work Small”