Technical Program Management (TPM) Principles

I am fortunate enough to be on Lyft’s Team to deliver rider and driver delight…

Characteristics of a High-performing Team

Characteristics of a High-performing Team are below. Teams that strive for excellence…

User Story Mapping for JIRA

The product backlog rapid board is normally a flat ordered list. This can make visualizing a minimum viable…

Easy Agile Roadmaps for JIRA @TwitterTPM

At Twitter we often do roadmapping in Confluence, Whiteboards and/or Google docs. This…

Lyft Engineering - focus on customers, people and problems.

I joined Lyft Engineering on the Technical Program Management Team a few weeks ago. Here are my top three thoughts on the first two weeks:

Customer obsession. We are laser focused on doing the right thing for our customers. We’re obsessed…

Software estimation is hard but there is help out there…

Software estimation is notoriously hard. When is user story x going to ship? How much can we fit into our sprint? How do we estimate the tech spec for y?

Principal Technical Program Manager & Founder at JWalpole Consulting

Passionate about building happy…

Building high performing & happy teams

I’m a great believer in the 7 lean principles as a tool to help teams grow — from…