This is the city, St Louis. I work here. My name is Rob. I write code. I carry a badge.
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
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
Most days I leave all the programming stuff at work, where (for me), work belongs. I make it a point to not focus on work at home. Since I work for an employer, that effort I perform for them is to build someone else’s dreams. So I leave work at work, striving, never to let … Read more Learning for fun instead of “for the job”
Are you letting life just happen to you? The other day, I found myself at work, and every few minutes I would check my email. No reason really which I could think of at the time. Do a little work. Check email. Do more work. Refresh email again. Not a fun day really. If you’re … Read more How to Stop Letting Life Just Happen to You
… or Who I’d Want to Work For. There is a person I want to work for and an environment I want to be in. Both of these are so hard to find. If I were a software manager, this is also the person I’d strive to be for my team, as well as the healthy environment … Read more The Best Job Description for a Software Development Manager Ever Written
You are a writer. You read me correctly. A writer. Check it out. See? Told ya. As developers, we write code (text) for others to enjoy, either through the usage of the output it creates or … wait there is another thing to consider here? … yeah .. or for others to read and learn … Read more Who do you code for?
Ok dudes and dudettes, I’m a weird duck. I get that. 🙂 Also, in my last post, I know I promised a different topic for this time but I had to get this one out. Perhaps on 2/10, I’ll unleash the post I had mentioned. Maybe this is just a picture of how strangely my … Read more Life Epics (Living the Scrum Life)
The Announcement In my last post, I mentioned it was near-time to announce a project on which I’m working. Time to drop the excuses, time to stop putting things off until they are ‘perfect’, time to stop being afraid that “someone on the internet won’t like your idea”. Well today is that day. I don’t … Read more Make Burgundy, Not Excuses
If you’re a developer reading this blog, you likely have an idea (or a dozen) for something you can create, using your skills, that could be an extra source of income for you. Maybe you even dream of replacing or exceeding your current income entirely. Now as soon as you read that, if you’re like I … Read more Make Anything, Except Excuses
Yeah I said it. Companies bigger than an actual startup, if you’re doing agile, just stop. Please for the love of the world, just stop. You’re likely kidding yourselves if you think you’re doing agile anyway. I have worked with small companies that are “doing agile” and I have worked at large companies that are … Read more For Non-Startups, Agile is Dumb, Go back to Waterfall