
User Story Mapping
I was reading LinkedIn comments and posting and ran across a post that referenced Jeff Patton's "User Story Mapping." I hadn't heard of...
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I was reading LinkedIn comments and posting and ran across a post that referenced Jeff Patton's "User Story Mapping." I hadn't heard of...
This Dog understands Persistence Agile belongs to developers. It's our methodology and tool for working with customers in a better way. ...
In my excellent and satisfying job as a "Data Architect, " most of what I do is explore data with "nonnumerical analysis." I've been...
Snowflake is an excellent modern database that couples the power of traditional SQL with modern data lake architecture. AWS Glue is a...
I filled out a form a few days back where they asked about my college transcripts. It made me realize that I wasn't a good student in...
I find many articles whose purpose is to check a box on a feature checklist. Yes, (check), Snowflake does integrate with Glue. It...
I describe myself as a reluctant Scrum enthusiast. Scrum is a great agile tool if you recognize it as a feature lifecycle process and...
The Author believes Passwords should be Easy as Cake Most people understand the value of treating servers like cattle, not pets. It's...
The Author at Rhode Island Fencing Club As a fencer am getting excited about the Olympics This Summer. As a data scientist, I am...
I am returning to a Product Owner role on a Scrum team and it excites me. Scrum is a true software development process and it belongs in...
Photo by Miguel A. Amutio on Unsplash The AWS Solutions Architect exam is a marathon. I had no idea what I was in for when I signed up...
Photo by Jan Tinneberg on Unsplash I found out I’m leading up a new Scrum team at the same time many of us are getting vaccinated, going...
Least Privilege on Shared Systems Photo by Ben White on Unsplash Extending secure access on a heterogeneous system can be complex. One...
Photo by Engin Akyurt on Unsplash Background on the Data Vault The Data Vault Model is useful when you have evolving dimensional star...
Montparnasse Derailment I'm reading Disaster Recovery of Workloads on AWS: Recovery in the Cloud. It's a great article! I'm struggling...
A couple of interesting security blogs: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/ https://shehackspurple.medium.com/
Image from PDCA - Wikipedia Walter Sherwart and W. Edwards Deming were two American engineers who founded modern statistical quality...
While I was hoping to spend a focused day on development and writing, I was greeted by this: Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry...
I ran across an article in Medium that draws interesting parallels between Taylorism and modern Agile Scrum. Tobias Higbie The Labor Age,...
My Work in the New Year Woodie Guthrie famously had "This Machine Kills Fascists" painted on his guitar. He stood up to Fascism whenever...