End-of-project-retrospective

My first attempt was to try and document all of the events since joining the project… and as interesting as it might be, I have decided to take a slightly different approach to capturing my retrospective thoughts.

User Stories, Tech Debt and Defects

they are all the same.

Configuration and Tuning Tips with OpenPilot

The OpenPilot flight controller has many powerful features. Many of these are…

What Makes a Good Tech Lead

What makes a good tech lead? A great question, but one difficult to answer. much like trying to answer… ‘what makes a great manager?’ or better yet… ‘what makes a great father?’. Many times, it is too many ‘things’ that when summed… create the greatness. I am not sure I can…

Blindness based on proximity.

yesterday… I started working on something with a team member. We are an ‘agile’ team and work in pairs continuously. This team member had been working on a problem for a day plus several hours. The change required some rather complicated javascript to be added/modified in…

The Challenges of Card Wall Management

Card walls are all the rage. It seems every team, proclaiming to be ‘agile’ or following some form of ‘agile’, has a card wall. Although, in most cases, I do not see these teams actually knowing why they have a card wall or even what they are supposed to do with…

Manager’s Guide to the Essential Engineering Practices

Manager’s Guide to the Engineering Practices.

Card walls are all the rage. It seems every team, proclaiming to be ‘agile’ or following some form of ‘agile’, has a card wall. Although, in most cases, I do not…

BYOD : Build your own drone… multi-rotor quadcopter that is

Speaking Culture

NOTICE: this may ruffle some feathers!

This is an attempt to put thoughts into words. To document how I think, we as a company, should be looking at the practice of public speaking. Whether a presentation at a large conference or lightning talks over lunch with your…

Coding in the Clink 6

What were you doing on Saturday, March 2012?

You should of been in Marion, Ohio… participating in Coding in the Clink VI. Dan Wiebe (twitter — @dnwiebe) has been asking me for months to participate and I have always had something else that was more important. Big…