A river of leadership. Jun 17, 2019 2 min read Leadership Leadership looks like white water rafting most of the time.
Start writing unit tests! Jun 10, 2019 1 min read Testing Writing unit tests is the beginning of agility.
Self-organization works if you let it. Jun 3, 2019 2 min read Healthy Ownership How do we create self-organization in teams? I think it is a combination of psychological safety and giving a team healthy guard rails.
More difficult than crayons May 28, 2019 3 min read engineering Software engineering is a creative process. Why do we treat it like manufacturing crayons?
Goodhart's Law is going to get you. May 20, 2019 2 min read Healthy Ownership Setting a metric as a goal is going to make that metric worthless. This is the meaning of Goodhart's law.