Posts
- 2024 Year in review
- Project planning around the holidays
- AWS re:Invent pre-event 2024
- Being happier at work
- What we do: Custom Development
- Dark Patterns
- When something goes terribly wrong
- What we do: Data Science & Engineering
- Running effective meetings
- How Low-Code can help
- Technical Interviews
- Cognitive Load
- Getting prepared to be prepared
- Overwhelmed with work
- Minnesota Summers
- Patches, fixes, and fails
- Outsourcing human cognition
- Is it worth it?
- The status of the “Next Big Thing”
- Product for non-product companies
- Approachability
- Human behavior in the era of digital tech
- Open Source North Recap 2024
- Being a city councilman
- Organizational Maturity
- Involving the business in data and content management
- Data Waste
- Exposed & Uncomfortable: Changing your environment on purpose
- Design Operations
- Avoiding diminishing returns
- Talking Baseball
- The current state of agile: Part 2
- The future of transportation
- Creativity Mode: ON
- Locus of Control
- Should you let AI speak for your company?
- The Big Event
- Code Bloat
- Returning to work etiquette
- Apple Vision Pro Experience
- AWS re:Invent Recap
- Multi-tasking
- All about security
- Consulting in 2024
- Being a leader as a consultant
- The 2023 Recap
- Using AI at home
- What has Agile become?
- Automation in AWS
- An intro to AWS Well-Architected Review
- The AWS re:Invent pre:Event
- Tech predictions for 2024
- Nomadic Workers: How do they do it?
- Why the Industry Needs Agile Project Management
- Working with Amazon Web Services
- 5 Essential AWS Services for Successful Application Modernization
- An intro to The Pollinator
- 100th Episode Spectacular
- SDG Hackathon: Up and Running with Kubernetes, Crossplane, and ArgoCD
- Quantum Computing
- Interviewing in a virtual world
- Too many cooks in the kitchen
- Generative AI
- Stretching your skills
- Other Peoples Code
- AI Copyright Conundrum
- A primer to game design
- Staying in the pocket with vanilla tech
- 5 stages of QA readiness
- Avoiding Mediocrity
- Three improv games to play with your agile team
- SDG Recognized as Star Tribune Top Workplace 2023
- How roles have changed in tech
- Board Gaming
- AI Governance vs. Freedom
- AWS: API Gateway
- Open Source North Recap
- Ascending with Optimism
- DevOps 101
- We’re bored with the board!
- Cloud Anti-Patterns
- Improv Games
- The Right to Repair Act
- You’re the PM? I thought I was the PM!
- Decision Fatigue
- Job Security
- Why test?
- Knowing your audience and speaking their language
- Architecture is an art form
- Stepping outside the developer status quo
- Getting outside of your comfort zone
- The right champion pays dividends
- What does success look like?
- An introduction to ChatGPT
- The Road to Consulting
- An introduction to Low Code
- Recognition at SDG
- Turning business data into business intelligence
- Utilizing Wisdom
- Successful Digital Product Innovation
- Defining Done
- How do you know when you need more help?
- Finishing strong
- Plans, plans and more plans
- Getting comfortable with iteration
- 2022 Year in review
- Special Edition: AWS re:Invent Recap
- Influential Books
- When do you use bleeding edge technology?
- Over-hyped technology & other things
- Blockchain 101: Real-World Uses
- A Developers POV: moving from waterfall to agile
- How to give a great product demo
- The Virtue of Patience
- Consulting as a Career
- Getting started with User Research
- How to be sure your product can go the extra mile
- Giving and receiving criticism
- Imposter Syndrome and how to deal with it
- The modern logging landscape
- Connecting beyond the screen
- Hanging in there when things are tough
- The Product Mindset: Promises, Promises
- User Research
- A Counterintuitive Approach to Consulting
- Your “product” driver has arrived
- Changes in the Dev-Ops Scenery
- Making and Breaking Rules
- Meet Ben Fischer: SDG’s Talent Sourcer!
- Life lessons from Dungeons & Dragons
- Agile Anti-Patterns
- Get to Know Ashley Sime: SDG’s Technical Recruiter
- Do generational differences really matter?
- Fostering and Maintaining Connections
- Setting Expectations
- Conferences: Are they worth it?
- When you feel Undervalued
- Getting Started with Indoor and Outdoor Gardening
- Fads in Technology and Business
- Joining the Data Evolution
- Building a Great Team Part 3: Norming & Performing
- Building a Team Part Two: Storming & Norming
- Building a Team Part 1: Forming & Storming
- Talking Frontend Development
- Learning from Comic Books and Movies
- Interviews and Interviewing
- Questioning your way to success
- Boundaries
- Organizational Change Management
- All about risk
- Going Slow in a Hurry
- Creating Special Moments
- Managing Burnout
- AWS: Serverless on Lambda
- How did you get to where you are today?
- Avoiding Documentation
- Get to Know the SDG Podcasters
- Season 1: the 2021 Year in Review
- Game Day: Day 1 of Release
- The Importance of Empathy
- Getting the Most Out of IT
- The Hobbies and Obsessions of IT People
- Training vs. Learning
- Company Culture
- Home Automation and the Internet of Things
- Apprenticeship in Tech
- The Wisdom of Ted Lasso at Work
- Gaining and Keeping Trust
- Overcoming Cloud Hesitancy
- The World of Online Delivery
- How to Get a Team Back on Track
- What the heck is Machine Learning
- Meet Cassandra Jastram: SDG’s newest recruiter
- Disasters, Fails and Things of that Nature
- Choosing the Right Cloud Provider
- Problem Solving Podcast
- Brain Tricks Podcast
- Time Management Podcast
- Crypto Currencies and NFTs
- I Spent Too Much on the Cloud!
- From Atoms to Pixels: Digital Product and Manufacturing
- The Move to Online Work – A Retrospective
- Product Mindset with Jason Scherschligt
- QA Automation Journey with Jess and Eddy
- Hybrid Cloud: “the best of both worlds”
- The Product Mindset: Let Them Eat Cake
- The Product Mindset: Your Secret Weapon is Value
- In Progress and the Curse of Reductionism
- Spring and Spock: Happy Together
- The Product Mindset: It’s Your Users’ Product
- 5 Remote Work Tips for Exhausted Employees
- The Product Mindset
- What’s New With Microsoft in Autumn 2020
- SDG Consultant Co-authors North Star Playbook
- Software Development with Agile Hybrid Projects
- What a Technical-Minded Scrum Master Brings to the Table
- What’s New and Interesting in SQL Server in 2020?
- Save Money, Fire the Scrum Master?
- The Struggle is Real: 5 Tips for Remote Collaboration
- Winning Over a Team
- Pause, Plan, Proceed
- Four technologies to investigate in 2020
- What is the SDG Big Event?
- The Agile Mindset: Expanding One’s Horizons
- Why You need a Front End Developer (Instead of Another “Full Stack” Dev)
- Defining Our Own Technology Map
- Composition of a Successful Scrum Team
- Life After Infopath
- Metatesting: A Pattern Based Approach to Testing Java Programs
- A Millennial’s Take on the Life of a Software Developer
- The Value of Quality Assurance: Part 2
- Teamwork: A Partnership Between Teammates and Leaders
- An Introduction to the Value of Quality Assurance
- Spring and Mockito – Happy Together
- Being Good at Being Wrong
- The SDG ESOP: From Shocked to Excited
- WebGL and Three.js: Particles
- 7 Lessons that Make Communication Easier
- Upgrade Your Scrum Retrospectives
- The Cost of Poor Quality
- WebGL and Three.js: creating a real scene
- The Problem With “Get Creative”
- Jumping into Crisis
- Helping Customers Succeed
- The Passion Paradox: Why Following Your Passion isn’t Always The Best Advice
- You Say Vanilla, I Say Value
- Motivation: The Key to a Successful Team
- WebGL and Three.js: Lighting
- Building Dynamic Columns in JasperReports
- A Simple Trick to Centralize Your .NET Configuration
- WebGL and Three.js: Texture Mapping
- All Good Things Must Come to an End
- Stages of Building a Team
- The Product Owner
- The Science & Art of Project Management
- Getting Started with WebGL and Three.js
- New Job Checklist: How to Start a Gig
- What is a Scrum Master?
