The Sweet Spot
On software development, engineering leadership, machine learning and all things shiny.

Agile

2020
December
How now, sacred cow?

Sometimes, our most dearly-held beliefs and practices are the very things that keep us from succeeding in new leadership roles.

August
The Product Owner Engineer - The Four Product Hats

Cool, we've got swarms of empowered ICs working on their newly ideated projects. How do you keep the team holistically moving toward the right goals, without having the superpowers of a PM on hand? You improvise and hand out some hats.

2018
September
I choose XP

A discussion about why I enjoy working in the XP-school of Agile. (tl;dr: I enjoy working in a pull-based work stream. I like that pair programming, TDD and other best-practice batteries are all included.)