Sometimes my weekly ‘questions’ blog post will have deeper or more personal questions (check out my post from this past weekend for an example here). Today I have a more mundane and practical question. What’s the right or best way to use “Tags” and “Categories” for denoting my blog posts? I’ve recently started blogging about… Continue reading What do you think?
For whatever reason I find former President Lyndon Johnson fascinating. I’ve read a few articles about him as a person and a president and some or all of a few biographies (including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns Goodwin). But my favorite reading about this deeply complex man has been the multi-volume… Continue reading What can we learn from LBJ?
I mentioned when I retooled this blog for the new year that in addition to my regular five post per week on what I’m reading, questions I have, leadership, pop culture, and Agile I would also be doing some re-blogging or link-posting to cool things I found and occasional other random posts on stuff that… Continue reading Is it stupid to be an optimist?
Always good thoughts from a clear expert on Agile and Product Management.
I spent two days this week getting certified as a scrum product owner through Scrum Alliance (find out more about all this here if you’re interested: https://www.scrumalliance.org/). The company where I work in software development and sales has been using the Agile methodology with Scrum for almost nine years (they were just starting this at… Continue reading Notes on Scrum Alliance Product Owner Training
My Thursday pop culture blog entries will touch on many different things depending on what I’ve been doing that week but today I wanted to start by recommending a great podcast called We Have Concerns (wehaveconcernsshow@gmail.com). You can find this on iTunes and elsewhere. The hosts are Anthony Carboni (@acarboni) and Jeff Cannata (@jeffcannata) and… Continue reading We Have Concerns
I’m not sure who said this first since I’ve heard or read it in multiple places over the years, but one of the simplest definitions of leadership I have heard is stated this way by leadership writer John Maxwell: “Leadership is influence.” As I take time in 2015 to blog regularly about leadership I wanted… Continue reading Influence
My company has been using an Agile approach to software development for over 8 years. We use a Scrum approach on our development teams. But here’s the thing: we don’t do everything that Agile Scrum is supposed to involve according to the experts. We’ve adapted the approach to fit our culture; specifically we have decided… Continue reading Are we missing something?
In 2014 I dove deep into my geek identity and started reading comic books again. I’ve read a few in the past several years but I haven’t really been much of a comic book reader since I was a kid. But last year I spent lots of my evenings and weekends reading comics and deeply… Continue reading Comic books
There’s a new page on this blog with info about some new directions I’m taking here. Check it out and let me know what you think. Enjoy!
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