Great Leadership is Not Heroic - It is Maintenance
It’s hard to get excited about an ERP upgrade when you feel invisible. Here is how practical leaders help messy, hard-working teams pull together and win.
Project Management
The ability to get work finished meeting budgetary and time constraints. It is both and art and a science.
Good Systems Need the Open-Closed Principle
Technology is rarely the hard part—people and process exceptions are. See how OOP concepts help PMs manage the "snowflake syndrome" in enterprise systems.
Why Chasing Industry Prestige Costs Us Our Identity
Big Tech and media companies promise cultural relevance in exchange for sacrifice. When downsizing hits, who are you without the brand? A personal reflection on surviving busts, layoffs, and AI.
Tuckman in the Age of Slack
Bruce Tuckman’s classic team-development model still holds up, but asynchronous communication, matrixed priorities, and remote work make the "storming" phase harder to escape. Here’s what six months in the messy middle taught me about resolving friction out loud.
T is for Testable
A testable user story is a product backlog item defined with clear, verifiable criteria that let developers and QA teams objectively validate whether a software feature works as intended. Clear testability enables automated unit tests and regression suites, reducing production bugs.