J. B. Rainsberger (https://bsky.app/profile/jbrains.ca, @[email protected], https://www.jbrains.ca) is a professional 5-pin bowler who enjoys consulting with software development professionals and the companies that employ them. He guides companies to improve results while he helps individuals work with less stress. He wants everyone to actually realize the promised benefits of Lightweight, Conversational approaches to software development. This includes helping folks making sense of the "Agile" chaos of the past quarter-century. Companies engage him for remote working sessions, training courses, on-site workshops, and in-person consulting visits. Individuals, especially those stuck in companies that don't have the budget for formal consulting, get the help they need from J. B.'s mentoring group. (They can often convince their employer to pay for that!) He lives in Atlantic Canada with his wife, Sarah, who is showing the Open Source world how to guide a mostly-volunteer project community to produce high-quality documentation. They travel to Europe less often than they used to, which makes each visit even more enjoyable.
Many programmers feel over-responsible for the results of their work group. This leads them to try to do everything for everyone all the time. And this leads them to disappointment, disillusionment, burnout, and even depression. I'd like to describe a different path, in which we make peace with the limits of our influence, confront our true capacity to do work, and find more satisfaction in doing what we can and not doing what we can't. Your employers might be surprised to learn that this path also leads towards consistent business results that don't suddenly crash at the worst possible moment! Everybody wins.
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