I was originally going to talk about organizational change management, and about the challenges faced and how to break down barriers and help organizations mature and innovate. But everything I was writing came across so dry and textbook-like, that instead I sat back and thought of a story to tell. So here it is. There’s […]
I haven’t written a post in a really long time, but the other day I made a commitment to myself to get back to being intentional about posting regularly. I was trying to decide whether to discuss it here or just start posting and pretending like nothing ever happened, but I eventually settled on discussing […]
Anyone here ever hear of the Iron Triangle? The idea is that, for any project, there are multiple high-level objectives competing with one another: cost, speed, and quality. And that to improve on any one you have to sacrifice the other. Let’s put this another, simpler way. You want a car that has more features, […]
An old mentor of mine told me something interesting one time. He was the manager of a team that developed software to simulate the flight of airplanes. He said to me, “I’d rather hire an aerospace engineer and teach them to write code, than hire a computer scientist and try to teach them aerospace engineering.” […]
So if you needed yet another reason to invest in DevOps, making security easy is a big one. As we’ve seen across the news and across the industry, security is a Big Deal and needs to be taken seriously. But I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Security doesn’t have to be hard. […]
So the other day I’m standing in front of my closet, wondering what shirt I’m going to wear that day. And for whatever reason I’m unable to make a decision. Intellectually I realize it’s really very silly. I’ve got like 5 or 6 perfectly good shirts to wear, yet I’m unable to commit to picking […]
The chore I hate the most in my house is definitely laundry. It’s just never-ending, especially now that I have a couple of kids. It’s better now but it took some mental improvements to myself to get there. Mainly because I had to change my psychological approach. I used to see laundry as a TODO […]
So I’m reading The Slight Edge, a pretty awesome book by Jeff Olson, and it is dawning on me how his basic principles apply to Agile. One anecdote that he mentions several times is that when a rocket is flying to the Moon it is actually off-course for over 90% of the time. Now that […]
I used to have a personality quirk, and I still do to some degree, where I have to know exactly what all is going on around me to a great level of detail. In my house I could tell you exactly what is in every closet, drawer, or shelf in the entire house. Even movies […]
So the other day I’m sitting around reading about geeky technical stuff (as I am wont to do) and come across an interesting synthesis of thoughts that can combined in a fascinatingly gestalt-ish way. I’m reading about the history of microservices and service oriented architectures, and how the original thinking for them evolved from a […]
