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Field notes from 16 years of shipping software. 38 articles.

Funding Agile Work When Finance Thinks in Waterfalls

PM InsightsMarch 12, 2026

Resource Capacity Planning in Agile: The Math Nobody Wants to Do

PM InsightsMarch 12, 2026

Who Does What: Roles Across Scrum, Kanban, and Lean

PM InsightsMarch 6, 2026

What 'Successful Project' Actually Means, PMI Standard Included

PM InsightsDecember 11, 2025

Choosing How to Measure Project Progress (Milestones, Tasks, EVM and Friends)

PM InsightsDecember 9, 2025

Running Meetings That Earn Their Cost

PM InsightsDecember 6, 2025

Making Agile and Waterfall Live Together in a Hybrid Project

PM InsightsDecember 3, 2025

Why Projects Fail

PM InsightsDecember 2, 2025

Choosing Project Management Software Without Falling for the Demo

PM InsightsNovember 15, 2025

Agile and Scrum, Explained by Someone Who Ran Both Badly First

PM InsightsJuly 4, 2024

Compliance Requirements: The Constraints You Don't Get to Negotiate

PM InsightsJune 23, 2024

Emotional Intelligence as a Delivery Skill

PM InsightsJune 8, 2024

Stakeholder Mapping: Picking the Right Classification Tool for the Mess You Have

PM InsightsJune 2, 2024

Interactive, Push, Pull: Choosing the Right Communication Channel on Purpose

PM InsightsApril 24, 2024

Conflict in Projects: Where It Really Comes From, and What Actually Works

PM InsightsApril 13, 2024

Motivation Theories a Working Manager Can Actually Use

PM InsightsApril 13, 2024

Leadership Styles: Pick by Situation, Not by Personality

PM InsightsApril 13, 2024

A Project Manager's Power: What You Actually Run On When Nobody Reports to You

PM InsightsApril 13, 2024

Structured Problem-Solving at Work: The Methods That Survive Contact With Reality

PM InsightsApril 13, 2024

Tuckman's Team Stages, Watched From the Inside

PM InsightsApril 11, 2024

Ground Rules: The Cheapest Team Infrastructure You'll Ever Build

PM InsightsApril 11, 2024

Rewards and Recognition That Don't Backfire

PM InsightsApril 11, 2024

Approaching a Shopify Plus Build Without Wasting the Platform

E-commerceMarch 29, 2024

Store Content That Sells: Optimization on Shopify, Beyond the Checklist

E-commerceMarch 29, 2024

OOP in Node.js

EngineeringMarch 29, 2024

Shopify vs Shopify Plus: What the Upgrade Actually Buys

E-commerceMarch 29, 2024

Decorator Pattern in Node.js

Node.js SeriesMarch 28, 2024

Factory Pattern in Node.js

Node.js SeriesMarch 28, 2024

Middleware Pattern in Node.js

Node.js SeriesMarch 28, 2024

Module Pattern in Node.js

Node.js SeriesMarch 28, 2024

Observer Pattern in Node.js

Node.js SeriesMarch 28, 2024

Singleton Pattern in Node.js

Node.js SeriesMarch 28, 2024

Strategy Pattern in Node.js

Node.js SeriesMarch 28, 2024

What is NodeJS's design pattern?

Node.js SeriesMarch 28, 2024

Ensuring Quality While the Project Is Moving

PM InsightsMarch 26, 2024

Handling Problems on a Live Project Without Making Them Worse

PM InsightsMarch 26, 2024

Writing a Quality Plan People Actually Use

PM InsightsMarch 25, 2024

Quality Management in PMP Terms, Minus the Jargon

PM InsightsMarch 25, 2024