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Two for one! Speed up with Test-driven Development & Don’t forget to measure
November 12, 2020
Speed up with Test-driven Development Doing test-driven development is the best way to maintain software release speed and avoid “legacy” software slowing...
Better, more decisive meetings
November 11, 2020
Better, more decisive meetings Most meetings should result in a decision. However, most meetings are not run well enough to get a decision. Today, I...
The mayonnaise measuring epiphany
November 10, 2020
The mayonnaise measuring epiphany – better software with discovery and framing https://youtu.be/hhKWUiaHbHU More than likely, your initial ideas for your...
How COVID changed IT priorities & spending, with Rita Manachi
November 9, 2020
How COVID changed IT priorities & spending, with Rita Manachi Tanzu Talk: How COVID changed IT priorities & spending, with Rita Manachi - YouTube Off in...
Everything I know about platform operations and platform as a product
November 6, 2020
(I don’t usually talk about the “show on the show,” but I’m trying something new here - quicker, smaller, hopefully daily things. Hopefully if I have smaller...
Staycation and small scale eternal return
October 20, 2020
Staycation Last week the kids had off, so I took it off as well. They actually gave Monday and Tuesday off as well, but a week is about as long as I can...
Lizard brains in digital transformation
October 9, 2020
Lizard brains in digital transformation Lessons from child psychology: my daughter fell on her bike recently, twice. She actually did "well" at falling, in...
Kubernetes is an enterprise architecture
September 12, 2020
Kubernetes is an enterprise architecture Five years ago, in the Pivotal Cloud Foundry days, we had a lot bravado. We almost challenged people, dared them to...
Economy in writing, or not
September 4, 2020
Source: wikipedia. I’ve been listening to The Sandman in Audible. The writing is, literally, comic book simple. It’s so bald and direct, people say instead...
"I can work only in small, intense bursts."
August 28, 2020
I am not good at constructing major pieces of work. I have a short concentration span. I can work only in small, intense bursts. I don’t seem to work...
No Subject
July 12, 2020
No Subject There’s little to report this episode. Things go on and on, over and over with just enough variation to keep me awake. Movie at 11. (I still...
A happy madness
July 3, 2020
A happy madness (1.) ¯_(ツ)_/¯ You wouldn’t know it unless you listened really carefully with a fine toothed comb to all my Internet bilge, but my mind gets...
Are you actually changing?
June 22, 2020
Are you actually changing? (1.) Improving the way you do software - doing agile, DevOps, or whatever - is about changing. If everything is working fine, you...
Neither urgent, nor important
June 15, 2020
(1.) Neither urgent, nor important People often ask me to do strategy, craft a big picture story, or give them advice on a large project. In reply, I...
Junk Enterprise Modernization
June 8, 2020
You can never step in the same digital transformation twice (1.) Junk Enterprise Modernization Getting excited about work has become hard. The struggle is...
A good story adds value to a product
May 31, 2020
A good story adds value to a product Originally posted on my blog. The more you can spread the narrative, the greater the potential force for your business....
Webinars, whipped cream in a can, the artist oyster diet
May 23, 2020
We’re all doing webinars now Two months is a long time to not be working. Well, to only do a little work. I’ll be back at work on Monday, and it’s hard to...
Prioritizing design time by durability, not populist beauty
May 12, 2020
Prioritizing design time by durability, not populist beauty A refinement of the "less is more" tool: Subtract rather than add: this rule must be understood...
One-handed video editing
May 9, 2020
One-handed video editing While on paternity leave, making videos is an easy, high value product to make. So I've made a lot! The videos so far: Vignettes on...
One minute videos on digital transformation
May 1, 2020
One minute videos on digital transformation I’ve been dying to work on some project while on paternity leave. (Yeah, yeah, I know!) Small videos are a good...
There is no six page memo in remote schooling
April 22, 2020
There is no six page memo in remote schooling There’s so much hidden skill in working with online tools for school. My kids and my mom show me this each day...
Re-living the present before fantasizing about re-living the past
April 20, 2020
Re-living the present before fantasizing about re-living the past I fantasize about how I could have lived my past days better, been happier and gotten...
Start with Hunter Thompson by reading Joan Didion first
April 13, 2020
Starting in on Hunter Thompson Someone asked me the best way to start in on Hunter Thompson, what book to read. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is his...
Nothing to give up on
April 2, 2020
Nothing to give up on Most of how people tell me to fix myself is to give up, or give into things. I’m not calibrated well to do that. At this point in my...
Current status, a poem
March 21, 2020
Current status, a poem I don’t know, man. Whatever. (Just click Publish.) Original programming What’s a Terraform (SDT) This week’s Software Defined Talk...
Cook eggs in olive oil
March 14, 2020
Cook eggs in olive oil You should olive oil to cook your eggs with. I was visiting with some friends of our several years ago, one of them from a Houstonian...
They found $5 billion in the couch
March 6, 2020
They found $5 billion in the couch I did a calculation like this too quickly and really goofed it up on this week’s Software Defined Talk, doing some double...
Scuba
March 5, 2020
There's a couple weeks backlog here. Scuba I went scuba diving for the first time a few weeks ago. My son liked it so much we went twice. I was worried at...
The Business Bottleneck, book, now available, for free!
February 10, 2020
New book from me, free too! I have a new “report” out from O’Reilly and sponsored by VMWare/Pivotal. It’s focused on how “The Business” can help out with...
Developers require janitors
February 4, 2020
Developers require janitors Rightly, people put a lot of value on developers: At the same time, if you look at the dollars, the business value at play in the...
Open source can't be used for differentiation
January 25, 2020
Open source can’t be used for differentiation Despite 20 years of using, analyzing, and marketing open source, I still don’t really understand how vendors...
Hug your manager
January 19, 2020
Hug your manager “the real action in any administration is executive in nature: knowing what regulatory buttons to push, which enforcers can really go for...
I talk too much
January 11, 2020
I talk too much I've had several meeting with new people at work recently. This happens when your company is acquired by another: everyone wants to get...
Museum bilge
January 4, 2020
I’ve got a backlog of links and other stuff from the past few weeks. My son wants to play Minecraft with me right now, so I’m just sending you this. Links,...
The Buddha had no kids
December 19, 2019
The Buddha had no kids Walking back from the Maritime Museum with a friend I asked him, "how are you so happy all the time?" They explained that they just...
Indecipherable note to self from 5 Dec 2019, 9:22pm on my iPad in Amsterdam
December 11, 2019
Indecipherable note to self from 5 Dec 2019, 9:22pm on my iPad in Amsterdam “It’s all incremental change.” Original content That webinar I mentioned is...
A fake simulacrum
December 9, 2019
A fake simulacrum At the Amsterdam zoo, during my kid’s art class, I go into the bird house, the section of the aviary made up like the Southwest. Listening...
Workaholic
November 29, 2019
Workaholic 1. I am slowly giving up on the world. Well, the world of following things so closely that that endlessly read RSS and newsletters and press...
Leading failure
November 23, 2019
Leading failure Another excerpt the book I’m currently working on - check out the full draft. You’ve likely heard of another Google tool, blameless post...
That time between being born and dying
November 17, 2019
This week, I’ve been finishing up the first, full draft of my book, The Business Bottleneck. I’ll send it over tomorrow, on Monday, so it’s mostly finished...
I don't want to see anyone
November 12, 2019
I don't want to see anyone Yet in many professional exchanges you may want to disguise your actual state of mind. Even in more intimate settings than the...
Do you still need an IT department?
November 10, 2019
Do you still need an IT department? Another small chunk from my book in progress. At this point, it's easy to ask "do I need an IT department? I mean, they...
Enshrine urgency: always run in the yellow
November 5, 2019
Here in Barcelona, still, for a Gartner event. Can’t get enough of a beach town, right? Enshrine urgency: always run in the yellow Another small chunk from...
Plato never worked at an enterprise
November 5, 2019
Organization structure, or, Plato never worked at an enterprise A small chunk from my book in progress. The first stumble leadership makes is assuming that...
(no subject)
November 2, 2019
bushwald 4 likes Field office. Oct. 29, 2019, 11:40 p.m. Traveling is catching up with me. It’s exhausting, in all the ways. I’ve been traveling constantly...
No escape
October 24, 2019
No escape We’re vacation all over the island of Ireland this week, the four of us. It’s exactly what you’d image: green, friendly, rainy sometimes, full of...
“Stories” & infrastructure software
October 17, 2019
"Stories" & infrastructure software First, "business" explained: When it all comes down to it, what is a business? You are an organization that has...
How to moderate a panel
October 9, 2019
Moderating a panel and interviewing None of this is intended to be pedantic, or whatever. It's just the things I think of when moderating a panel or...
A whole lotta links
October 6, 2019
Followup, Austin BBQ I'm told that Terry Black's is where you want to go for BBQ in Austin nowadays. They say it's Tasty Meats Paul's choice. As always in...
Things to do in Austin for foreigners short on time
October 2, 2019
Things to do in Austin for foreigners short on time I navigate life, mostly, though food, rather, eating. Thus, my suggestions for things to do in Austin are...
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