Being part of a software development team, you will eventually present software to an audience. Up to this point in my career, I have participated as a presenter and spectator for hundreds of demonstrations of various sizes. Throughout these…

A friend and I recently started working on a little side project. It had been over a year since we last worked on anything together before starting this little adventure. The original idea for the project came from his wife and her love of reading…

It has been exactly one year since moving from a consulting role into a product team lead role. While the titles are effectively the same, the roles are drastically different. In this post, I am going to highlight some of the main differences I have…

Most Sunday nights, after the house is quiet I had fallen into the habit of attempting to get my brain back into work mode. Since beginning to write again, I have fallen out of this habit. My focus shifted to squeezing out as much relaxation and…

As you scroll through social media, there is a non-zero probability that you will come across some motivational content. Sharing the message of "just start". If you are anything like me, you find those posts wholly annoying. Everyone knows to make…

For any software team, there are many customers. Some customers are external to the organization. Some customers are internal, such as the leadership team, marketing, and sales. The list seems endless at times. As a team member, you share all the…

Engineers are always solving problems. Many of which are optimization problems. My problem to be solved? How can I continue blogging without investing more time at a keyboard? In order to understand the change, let's start with what my process had…

It has been a tough week. The team is all hands on deck to reach a project milestone. Most of my time went from coordinating work and impediment removal to hands-on development. The task at hand for me was to set up data in all environments. With a…

When I started this career path, I was in a bustling office space where 90% of the IT team was in the office five days a week. To learn what I needed to and make progress to get to the next development level a great pair of noise-cancelling…

I was never a perfectionist. In school, I was the type to race through all the work to get to the "fun stuff." I always wanted to move forward, not often looking back to see what I missed or could have done better. When it comes to writing these…

I have been fortunate in life with employment. Up to this point, I have never been laid off or fired. Every position I have moved on from was my decision, no one else's. While I have worked for various sizes of organizations, currently I am working…

The elephant in the room keeps looking at me. I know exactly why it is peering my way. The elephant knows I have lost it; I know it too. I didn't want to believe it... At least not yet. How did it take so long to gain it, but could be lost in a…