I call it the “Gift of Death.” Back in May of 2009 I started my journey with chemo. You see – I was diagnosed late March 2009 with cancer. After they check surgical margins and such – they news wasn’t what I had hoped. It was scary. I didn’t tell […]
When Books Were All We Had Back in the later 1980’s and the 1990’s I think I invested a ton of money buying new books on all the latest tech topics. Databases, programming languages, methodologies, all the things. I spent a lot of money. I needed a book! And thankfully, […]
Hello Lex! He’s just over 4 weeks old today. Yes – he’s cute! Drew and I get to bring him home on May 28. We’ve started to get all the dog things to help prepare. I don’t think that will be enough to help us prepare for what is about […]
It was September, 2020 – the middle (at least of this writing) the global pandemic. My partner was at a loss for most of the pandemic as bike race after bike race cancelled. However, the Lotaja race was on. We drove a long way from Minnesota to Logan Utah where […]
Many efforts go after the changes in in processes and tools. Some even go after the organizational design. But – we all know that we often see changes in these things that are put in place and, in the end, don’t really change much. Changes to a funding model – […]
It’s always good to chat with Kurt. This is a talk about building the right product. In my professional career I have often come into a team to help with what product they are building. I quickly ask what research did you do, who did you talk to, etc. Sadly […]
I wonder how many projects suffer from Atelophobia. Is this what causes projects/efforts to spin and spin on getting done? Rather than asking “can this thing we’re building do the job,” we ask instead “is it perfect for the job yet?” When shoveling the inches of snow received in MN […]