Stop writing 10-line loops when one LINQ method will do! In this presentation, I cover the game-changing LINQ methods that shipped with .NET 6+ that m...
Can your CFO read your backlog and understand what you're building? How about your biggest customer? If the answer is no, you've got a problem. Work P...
Your project is behind schedule. Features aren't working. Your team is accused of "not getting anything done." Sound familiar? Episode 1 of Fix a Fail...
"Stop sucking" isn't helpful leadership advice. Yet leaders say versions of this every day. This video reveals why telling people what NOT to do is la...
Don't think of an elephant. What did you just think of? This is the power of linguistic frames - the mental images between your words that shape how p...
You can only do one thing at a time. (Yes, even you, multitaskers!) In this video, I break down what a backlog REALLY is and why it's fundamentally di...
Every branch you create is like taking out an "integration credit card." The longer it lives, the more "interest" you pay in merge conflicts and rewor...
When I hear "we'll just cherry pick that," I think: "Oh no... we're in trouble." Cherry-picking creates isolated, inconsistent code paths. It's a symp...
Story points making your head spin? You're not alone.If your team's estimates are abstract, hard to explain, and unreliable for forecasting, try track...
We promise to deliver by May 15" vs "85% chance we'll deliver by mid-May" Which sounds better? The promise. Which builds more trust? The forecast. Pro...
Learn how to modernize your CI/CD process with Azure DevOps YAML pipelines. This comprehensive guide from VSLive San Diego 2025 covers multi-stage dep...
Do more with less" doesn't mean work harder - it means work smarter. Gerald Weinberg's research shows that at 5 simultaneous tasks, 75% of time is was...
Your team delivers 75% of the time - that's pretty good, right? Wrong. With 10 deliverables, the chance ALL are on time drops to just 5%. (0.75^10 = 0...