Years ago, when I was flying a lot, I found myself reading on planes and in terminals quite a bit. While perusing the selections one day I saw this book and found the title to be pretty interesting. Up until that point in my career, the only bus I had ever encountered was the proverbial one where you either run over by it OR the one where you ran scenarios against people that key to…
So the standard, that hasn’t changed in the past ten years, hasn’t been updated and/or improved upon is the Standard? The standard that we have built countless workarounds, around everything that we do and has added workload to all that we do? Standards are great, only if they evolve. When they stop evolving, they stop becoming a standard and instead become a nuisance or a tolerance. If you are responsible for a standard, identify what…
No, it’s not something I wrote. At the last conference I attended (going back to 2016), I attended Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference. On the last day, the last session made the entire conference entirely worthwhile. I would have paid the conference fee to attend this session again. The talk is given by James Whittaker and is such a great talk on the need for creativity in everything we do. I’ve watched some of his other…
When it needs to get done. When we needed it yesterday. When the customer is asking for it. When the project plan says it must be done. Until you look at what you are doing, how you are doing it and where you need to go with it, it’s all imagined, it’s all an idea, it’s all a concept. There is no rush, unless you make one. And if you’re making one, the only people…
When a catastrophic issue arises on your project, the immediate push is to get in there and fix it as soon as possible. How can we patch? How can we get to the bottom of it? How can we make it work better? We do this, without fully understanding the extent or impact to the problem as a whole. We do this without possible fully understanding all the issues at large but wanting to do…