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Bart Elison

Principles over walled gardens

Have you ever had a moment when you thought someone was trying to do your job for you? It can be extremely frustrating, perhaps even…

Feb 14, 2017

Principles over walled gardens

Feb 14, 2017

Bart Elison

Build trust with proactive communication

When you don’t understand something, it’s human nature to find it hard to trust in those that will be doing it. Think about the feeling you…

Jan 13, 2017

Jan 13, 2017

Bart Elison

Process growth

If you’ve spent some time as a developer in the world of startups or small growing companies think back and count how many times you’ve…

Oct 27, 2016

Process growth

Oct 27, 2016

Bart Elison

New job? Embrace the discomfort

The past 7 or 8 years on the job I’ve been in a position of being one of the most knowledgeable people from the perspective of the domain…

Oct 2, 2016

Oct 2, 2016

Bart Elison

Something better maybe

Patience is not one of my strong suits. I don’t do well in purgatory between life choices. Avoiding that mental gap was pushing me to rush…

Sep 23, 2016

Sep 23, 2016

Bart Elison

Grateful for wonderful teachers

I’ve had a couple of experiences over the past week that helped me realize how rare and wonderful a good teacher is. My daughter came home…

Sep 19, 2016

Sep 19, 2016

Bart Elison

Product Management

In a previous post I was pondering on the flow of work through the software engineering process. After publishing, a friend tweeted a…

Sep 15, 2016

Sep 15, 2016

Bart Elison

So Agile is dead?

I started to write this post a couple months ago. For some reason I never finished it and as I went back I realized my perspective had even…

Sep 14, 2016

Sep 14, 2016

Bart Elison

Perspectives

Saturday evening I was sitting with some friends watching one of the worst football games I can remember. Utah collegiate football should…

Sep 12, 2016

Sep 12, 2016

Bart Elison

Choices

As mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been on the hunt for a new company. This is the first time I can remember being completely…

Sep 9, 2016

Sep 9, 2016

Bart Elison

Bart Elison

Reality consultant. VP of Engineering @Nav, former web app engineer Boombox, Qzzr, G5 Leadership, MX, more. Love small tech companies

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