Saying No With Grace
originally published over at UNFUK.com One of the primary problems with any aggressive project is that opportunities to fail are everywhere - but they are hidden. We see so many exciting things: new things to learn; new projects that come with revenue; new features...
read moreSimplifying – Killing off iPhone Notifications
Since just before Christmas I've been removing things that intrude upon my life. This morning my phone woke me up at 7:05am. I am normally up well before then but decided to enjoy a sleep in. The culprit was my the BBC News app on my iPhone. A relatively generic news...
read moreHeroes Amongst Us…
Taken just outside the cemetery at Bretteville sur Laize - in a farmer's field. 2,958 WWII vets lie there, 2,871 are Canadian. I visited in 2014. Silence, amazement, pride, horror and respect all factored in to that visit. This story is not about me. It’s about an...
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NYSE Outage – Systems Will Fail – It’s a Given
This week's failure on the NYSE is a classic systems integration and IT investment failure. Business Owners can learn from this failure in many ways. I'm not here to rail on the NYSE and its outage. With a system as complex, regulated, and visible as the NYSE outage...
read moreCoaching – My Turn To Give Back
Is your software team driving you crazy? Are they telling you no all the time? Were they amazingly fast in the past but now they are slow as hell? As a business owner you'd think your software team would want to meet your needs - but they're not. And you want to fix...
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Software Team Depriving Owners Of Sleep
“At times I’d just lay - wide awake and terrified.” All because her software team had basically mutinied. They weren’t responding to her business needs. As a business owner she was the one paying for this supposedly high end software team. And they ignored her. They...
read moreNir Eyal – on harnessing technology…
"When harnessed correctly, technology can enhance lives through healthful behaviours that improve our relationships, make us smarter, and increase productivity." - Nir Eyal
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Shiny Object Syndrome
Shiny Object Syndrome can destroy your business. As a business owner you know that being distracted by shiny things and squirrels is natural. But picking the future of your company’s technology base because something is new and shiny could be fatal. Shiny Object...
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Mind the Gap With Your Software Team
Growing a company is hard. Especially when your business has software at its core - as a differentiator or competitive advantage. Strange things happen. Things that were running smoothly suddenly shift. The flow of information halts or gets distorted in strange ways....
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Giving Away Leadership
Short one today... I lead many different development teams. I am constantly asked how I can lead and assist so many teams. The answer is quite simple. I allow them to lead themselves. I see my role as a leader to be enabling the teams to grow - to push them and help...
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