Ideas

Leadership Skills for Open Science
A proposal for the next kind of workshop I think organizations like the Carpentries need to teach.
Harper-Lite: Simple Lesson Discovery and Aggregation
A proposal for making open access lessons easier to find and remix.
It Will Never Work in Theory
Short summaries of research papers in software engineering that I have posted since we shut down It Will Never Work in Theory.
Software Engineering Research Ideas
Sixty-five research questions I collected from colleagues in industry; as far as I know, nobody has tackled any of them yet.
Not on the Shelves
A list of books I wish someone would write that I’ve been updating since 1997.
Sex and Drugs and Guns and Code
A longer proposal for the book I most want someone smarter than me to write.
Software Engineering: Compassion, Evidence, Process, and Tools
The other book I really want someone to write.
Concept Maps
Sketches of mental models (many translated to or from Spanish) that also serve as examples for my teaching workshop.
Learner Personas
A collection of data science learner personas originally developed at RStudio that I also use in my teaching workshop.
Miscellaneous Advice
My thoughts on everything from how to be fired to how to hand over a project and move on.