Devup 2018 (What you missed) – Building a Stronger Team One Strength at a Time

Continuing our series on Devup 2018 (gosh I wrote that like I have a huge readership) let me introduce another rockstar, Angela Dugan.  If you get a chance to hear Angela speak, particularly on the subject of soft skills, make it a point to be there. I first heard Angela speak at Devup in 2017 … Read more Devup 2018 (What you missed) – Building a Stronger Team One Strength at a Time

Devup 2018 (What you missed) – Badass 101

Lyndsey Padget.  Learner. Public speaker. Writer. Badass. Lyndsey gave this incredible session at Devup this year called Badass 101. I’d never heard Lyndsey before but this won’t be the last time I attend a session led by her, I can tell you that much.  This was different.  Different in a very good way!  It was … Read more Devup 2018 (What you missed) – Badass 101

Dev up 2018 – What you missed

After this year’s dev up conference in St Louis, MO I wanted to write my notes and thoughts here on my blog instead of just keeping them to myself (like I usually do). Sharing with the rest of the developer community … that’s in keeping with many of the speaker’s messages from the conference too … Read more Dev up 2018 – What you missed

Want Amazing Products? Build an Amazing Culture

Back at my second real IT job, we did not have what some would call today “true” agile practices.    I say that because we did a great deal of up-front design work, requirements gathering, and signoffs.  Those are all things that most “agile” shops I’ve worked with avoid like the plague. Somehow though, at that job, we seemed … Read more Want Amazing Products? Build an Amazing Culture