Doug Durham

This month, I am stepping away from daily operations as Managing Partner at Don’t Panic Labs.

April 2025 marks the 15th anniversary of the founding of Don’t Panic Labs.

Musings on Career Development in Software I have spent a fair amount of time over the last 5-10 years thinking about how our industry views and supports professional development.

What skills and knowledge are developers lacking?

It is a very exciting day for us at Don’t Panic Labs.

Last week, I had the privilege to give the opening keynote at the 2021 Nebraska.Code() conference.

The countless tragic deaths, most recently of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, and the recent violence we have seen play out have reinforced the need for our society to participate in some difficult conversations about who we are and who we

Have you ever been asked a question along the lines of … “Are you an Agile dev shop?”

I just got back from the International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) that was held in Montreal, Canada on May 24-26.

Have you ever wrestled with a problem in your mind and then, while trying to explain it to someone else, had an epiphany of how to solve it?