More Movers, Less Shakers 📦
Some people move work forward. Others just shake the room.
This is a metaphor about experience, calm, and real progress — and why engineering teams need more movers and fewer shakers.
Agile Isn’t About the Ceremonies — It’s About the People 💬✨
Agile isn’t about checking boxes or running ceremonies — it’s about people, learning, and delivering value. Here’s what I’ve learned from helping teams adopt Agile, the struggles to watch for, and how to actually make it work. 🚀
🧠The Uneven Tracks of Engineering Careers
ICs must prove they can do the job before they’re promoted. Managers are promoted first, then given years to prove they can do the job. Until both tracks are held to the same standard of readiness and accountability, engineering culture will remain uneven.
⚔️ The Raid Leader’s Guide to Engineering Teams
When the Demogorgon shows up, you’d better have the right party. In Part 2 of my RPG series, I share how to balance your engineering team like a pro — from role gaps to flex builds to knowing when your party’s become a guild.
🎠Role-Playing Archetypes of Engineers (Stranger Things Have Happened)
Engineering teams are like RPG parties: tanks, mages, rogues, and healers all working together. Here’s how I think about engineer archetypes — and why I lead like a Raid Leader, not the hero. 🎮✨
đź“š Pitfalls & Anti-Patterns: A Glossary for Engineers, Managers, and Product People
A friendly glossary of common traps, anti-patterns, and bad habits that creep into engineering, product, and management work—so you can spot them (and avoid them!) next time they show up.
Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls 🌊
We all agree waterfall is broken.
Somehow, we keep rebuilding it every 90 days and calling it progress.
This is a critique of quarterly planning, control culture, and the illusion that you can schedule flow.