DANNY BARRETO - Blog

The Pirates of the Caribbean series has always been one of my favorites and one of the biggest reasons is of course: Captain Jack Sparrow.

The following phrase is one of my favorite mental models for how I approach discussions, decisions, and problem-solving: “And then what happens?”

My wife and I have a recurring problem.

It's easy to understand why it's still tempting to present a project's progress in phases like these: Requirements: 100% Development: 80% Testing: 30% Deployment: 0% On paper, the project looks nearly finished.

"Every system is perfectly designed to get the result that it does." – W.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is, at its core, a story about building something unprecedented: the atomic bomb.

In many teams I’ve worked with, when a challenge pops up there's often a rush to adopt specific tools, frameworks, or processes in hopes of improving productivity or alignment.

I was a big fan of Rework and always felt the principles of that book were a great embodiment of the spirit of Agile (even though 37signals doesn't necessarily follow any of the frameworks that have been popularized alongside Agile).

Ever since I was in school, one thing I've always done first thing in the morning is make my bed.

n many organizations, there’s an unspoken belief that the most efficient system is one where everyone is operating at 100% capacity.