Author: Marcus Blankenship

Where other technical coaches focus on process or tools, I focus on the human aspects of your Programmer to Manager transition. I help you hire the right people, create the right culture, and setup the right process which achieves your goals. Managing your team isn't something you learned in college. In fact, my clients often tell me "I never prepared for this role, I always focused on doing the work". If you're ready to improve your leadership, process and team, find out how I can help you.

Can you go home again?

When I was a Team Lead of 8 programmers, I envied them.  Not because their job was easy, but because I missed programming.  I missed writing software each day.  I missed the periods of deep focus, of technical problem solving, of putting the final touches on something I was proud of.  I missed delivering something […]

"We don't have control over our ambition."

Last week I wrote with thoughts on this question: How do you know a story is too big before it’s too late?  But I think there’s a deeper issue here we could explore.  A better question might be Why do stories get too big in the first place?   If we only limit the bigness, as […]

How do you know it is too big before it is too late?

Nathan and I were discussing the abuse of burn-down charts on Twitter. He asked an important question: How do you know a story is too big before it is too late? Since this was twitter, I’ll expand the question a bit: How do you know a story is too big to finish before the end […]

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