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Excella Innovators: Taylor Bird

Meet Taylor Bird, Lead Consultant, Data Scientist, and Xpert candidate at Excella. We sat down...

Best Practices, Project Management

4 Low-Cost Ways to Foster Government Innovation

If you’re in the Federal Government, innovation can feel like a real challenge. But there...

Project Management

What We Can Learn From How the Navy Used Cynefin in WWII

Cynefin, the sensemaking framework, is a very useful tool for helping teams and organizations approach...

Project Management, virtual teams

Remote-work and Burnout: 10 Ways to Avoid it on Your Tech Team

For many tech pros, remote work is hell because all the traditional work/home boundaries are...

Conferences, Professional Development, Women in Technology

What We Owe Each Other: Bravery Instead of Perfection

Over the summer, I viewed a Ted Talk by Reshma Saujani on teaching girls to...

Agile, Agile Coaching, Professional Development

Inspecting and Adapting Myself

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to...

Internships, Professional Development, Software Development

This is No Babysitting Job

Final Post of the Series: Increase Your Stock by Investing in Your Future I’m always...

Internships, Professional Development, Software Development

Four Things We Learned at the Tableau Conference 2018

This year, approximately 17,000 data fanatics – or as Tableau refers to them, Data Rockstars...

careers, Internships, Software Development

Three Things You’ll Learn as a Mentor

Part 8 of the Series:  Increase Your Stock by Investing in Your Future Mentoring trains...

careers, Internships, Software Development

The Essential Traits Needed to be a Mentor

Part 7 of the Series: Increase your stock by investing in your future What makes a...

careers, Internships, Software Development

How Mentoring Has Made Me a Better Technology Consultant

Part 6 of the Series: Increase your stock by investing in your future Mentoring students is...

careers, Internships, Software Development

Leveraging Learning Styles in Your Mentoring Relationships

Part 5 of the Series: Increase your stock by investing in your future Understanding and identifying...