2026: Year of Community

I spent many hours over the holiday break wrestling with Docker path mappings on my homelab server. Multiple open source apps, each expecting files in slightly different locations. Mount points that worked for one broke another. Environment variables that I had to continually down and up the stack to test. So I did what we all do now: I asked an AI. Ten minutes later, I had it all working. Problem solved. ...

January 1, 2026 · 7 min · Aaron Held

Agile vs Economic Downturns

Is the Economy derailing your Agile Transformations? Economic uncertainty hits. Layoffs are all over the news and productivity suffers. Every time, I see people wanting to blame the loss or productivity on budget cuts and layoffs. That is the short term impact, but I see longer term harm playing out. Teams that were thriving on collaborative decision-making suddenly go quiet. The same people who were debating sprint priorities and pushing back on requirements start waiting for marching orders from above. ...

September 5, 2025 · 4 min · Aaron Held