Digital TransformationIf you are the person who gets called every time something breaks, the problem is not your availability. The escalation logic lives in your head and nowhere else, so every call has to reach you. Writing that logic down on…
Digital TransformationThe valuable half of an on-call schedule is the part where you are not on it, and that half only exists if the boundary is real.
Digital TransformationModernization gets sold as an opportunity and it almost never arrives as one. It arrives as a bill, when a vendor stops supporting something or a platform can no longer be upgraded.
Digital TransformationEvery platform purchase has a gap between signing and working, and nobody plans for what happens inside it. We bought enterprise middleware during a major migration, and while it was being implemented one of my programmers and his team wrote…
Digital TransformationThe Death of Thinking is the diagnosis and this is the answer, following the same twelve people down the path they did not take. The practices are small, they compound, and they are what I do.
Digital TransformationBefore you fund a project to modernize an aging system, find out whether the failures are coming from the software or from the hardware underneath it. We had an old system breaking constantly and running slow. Nobody rewrote a line…
IT OperationsThe first time you outsource a capability is usually the last decision you get to make about it. I built a private cloud, my team had no hours to learn the technology, so I hired a firm to run it.
Digital TransformationThe most valuable product the firm I worked for ever sold started as two people fixing something on the side because a machine was slow and it bothered them. Nobody asked for it, nobody funded it, and nobody could have…
HiringThe best hire I made in thirty-three years produced no story. The resume was accurate, the interview matched it, the background matched the interview, and the work matched all three.
ConsultingThe best job I ever had came from doing unglamorous maintenance work well for somebody who was watching without either of us thinking about it. No application, no resume, no search.
Decision MakingEvery transformation vendor sells alignment, and alignment is not for sale. I ran a company off paper and onto computers with hundreds of people across every department wanting different things, and no version of that project existed where everyone was…
AIIf your team has been stuck on the same problem for more than a few days, the fastest fix is usually to delete the work and start over, and almost nobody does it. I lost weeks to a bug that…
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