Finding Work & Life Balance in 2020 Now in third full week of #stayhome except for essential #socialdistance shopping and outdoor exercise. Friday – Sunday, April 3 – 5 Work: Which waves of “new normal” are here to stay, and what does that mean for tech? Spent time with the Twitter tech community as we […]
Daily life and technology in the year of #Covid19. Check back here for regular updates. Saturday & Sunday, March 28 & 29 Life: Well, Zoom, Facebook Live and WhatsApp got a workout this weekend. Virtual cocktail hours, virtual concerts (like the one pictured here with @lewisgoodwinmusic), video calls with family 5 miles down the road […]
A journal of daily life and technology in the year of #Covid19. Saturday & Sunday, March 21 – 22 Life: Did my family CIO act, and instructed the older generation on how to have multi-family chats between UK and USA via WhatsApp. Thankful to have a good weather weekend. We went for a hike near […]
Support, Block, Stay Out Of The Way This is the last of my six-part series on approaches and techniques to prevent IT program failure. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.” Margaret Wheatley, management consultant and writer Managers, directors, and executives are too often impediments to teams’ success. If they […]
Sometimes It Is Just Too Late To Learn From Failure On Monday February 3rd, as fans of the Kansas City Chiefs were celebrating and the rest of us were starting another work week, the first event of the 2020 election, the Iowa Caucuses, began. As most people know, the results of the Iowa Caucus were […]
“Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.” Mahatma Gandhi Try to go too far too fast results and you could crash & burn. But at the same time, if the outside world is moving more quickly than your organization, you better press on the gas. This is a tricky balance. Companies […]
“4 out of 3 people have trouble with fractions.” Unknown Organizations compensate for too many projects by slicing and dicing people between projects. The figuring out and management of all these fractional people is a colossal waste of time. Assigning percentages of people’s time to projects is a sign that there are too many non-prioritized […]
This is the third in a six-part series on how to prevent failure and accelerate outcomes. “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” A proverb, also attributed to George S. Patton. The projects most likely to fail are the ones that are the most expensive. $1M or more projects fail at […]
This is the second in a six-part series on how to prevent failure and accelerate outcomes. In emergency rooms, disasters and wars, limited medical resources are allocated to maximize the number of survivors. In IT units, limited resources should be allocated to maximize the outcomes that will be most valuable to the company. “If you […]
This is the First in a Six-Part Series on How to Prevent Failure and Accelerate Outcomes I’ve been there, done that, and gotten a lot of t-shirts. This series will be learnings and specific actions to materially increase predictability and effectiveness of achieving the right outcomes associated with technology investment. “Successful people ask better questions, […]
