Don’t Let Critical Knowledge Walk out the Door: A Practical Guide to Knowledge Transfer in Software Development — In the fast-paced world of software engineering, knowledge is indeed power, but how do you unlock this power to make your team more effective? With software engineers choosing to leave after 1–2 years or budget cuts resulting in the loss of tenured engineers, and decades of institutional knowledge, the folks…

Getting Buy-in: Top 14 Ways to Increase Adoption — Recently, someone asked me for advice on increasing adoption of a new technology. As I shared my insights, they eagerly took notes and inquired if I had published this information. Motivated by their interest, I took the time to collect my thoughts into a cohesive list. Below are 14 tips…

Actionable Strategies to Improve Developer Docs — Documentation is essential to any organization’s success, particularly for software development teams. However, creating and maintaining effective documentation can be a challenging task. This article will discuss the top issues with documentation, provide actionable strategies to overcome these hurdles, and offers example OKRs to achieve success.

Did you know you can host multiple instances of a ghost blog on one digital ocean droplet? Once you have three or more ghost blogs on individual droplets, it may be time to consolidate to save money. What are you waiting for, let’s dive in! First things first, what size droplet? If you have one blog…

For those who find redundant work painful & appreciate automation. I fell in love with Google Natural Language API, and you will love it too! No coding experience needed! Do you have multiple documents that you need to consolidate into one master document based on overlapping themes? Let me give…

I highly recommend purchasing the book and using this article as a supplement or refresher. Lie #1 People care for the company they work for. TRUTH: People care which team they’re on. The engagement level of the particular team is what determined whether or not an individual was likely to stay or leave the company. A team leader should: make…

Open Source Nodejs & React App on top of the Strapi Headless CMS Ever wish you had an app that you could use to schedule reminder emails and slack messages for your employees? Me too so I built one! EZMessageManager is an open-source project made with the strapi headless CMS…

The FASTEST, EASIEST way to get going as of January 2021 I was trying to discover the fastest way to build nodejs/react applications with a database backend and quickly fell in love with the Jamstack architecture. Ghost CMS— beautiful, simple & fast, but I could not easily add custom fields. …

How Engineers Can Build Better Courses About Me I made a career pivot from a Director of Web Services in the public sector academia, supporting the online education tools and services for students, faculty & staff to the private sector, supporting onboarding, continuous learning, and tools for engineers. Teaching faculty, subject-matter-experts in…