Ideas & Writing

Ideas Worth Exploring

Throughout my career, I’ve learned as much from asking questions as answering them. This is where I share ideas I’m exploring around leadership, engineering culture, distributed teams, technology, and the changing way we build software.

Latest Writing

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  AI Is Moving the Constraint in Software Engineering

  Aug 25, 2026Engineering, AI & Technology

  AI is changing software engineering, but not simply by making engineers more productive. Using the Theory of Constraints, I explore how AI is shifting the bottleneck from writing code to understanding problems, defining solutions, and making better decisions.

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  Understanding the Leadership of Remote Work

  Journal of Business and Educational Leadership · Volume 34, Issue 1

  Research I co-authored with Dr. Deirdre Dixon of the University of Tampa, exploring a question I've encountered throughout my career: What does effective leadership look like when teams aren't in the same room?

  This teaching case explores authentic leadership in remote work environments and how trust, communication, and leadership behavior influence the effectiveness of distributed teams.

  Jeff Whiteside, “Understanding the Leadership of Remote Work,” Journal of Business and Educational Leadership, 34(1), 147–160.

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