If you’re going to go through all the effort of having a Daily Standup, you better make it worth everyone’s time. You will never find the perfect time in the day to hold a standup, someone will already have been up for a few hours and in the zone, someone…

The hardest part about an outage isn’t when things are going wrong, customers are calling you non-stop and your app is unresponsive to anyone and anything that breathes on it. Believe it or not, this is the easy part — primarily because everyone who has ever been near an emergency…

I’ve worked with great coders, brilliant coders who could run laps around me and make my mind spin. They could see the code in their heads and write it out like Shakespeare. But when it came time to organize this work, they couldn’t organize what they were doing or trying…

The one, irrefutable truth about farming, is that you cannot start it the day before you go to market. You can’t, it’s impossible (unless you have a replicator a la Star Trek, it’s not going to happen). I’m not a farmer (I have never grown a vegetable in my life)…

I made this SlideShare a number of years ago, before the great comic book explosion on the big screen. I recently converted it over to Google Slides, available here. When I read over the content of the deck, the message remains the same — there is no “style” for what…