Honest thinking about technology decisions.

Interesting story in the Wall Street Journal's Business Technology Section titled "Keeping it Simple Pays for a Champion Coder". The article points to the

It's been a while since I've railed against bad customer service....namely because I've not been too upset with the various services that I've received.

When did common sense get removed from the corporate technology selection process? For those that don't know what it is, technology selection is the

I had the following stated to me today in a meeting: "Cost is a fact, Price is a decision" What a great quote and very true. The cost of a product or

This post is an excerpt of a recent paper titled "Improving Knowledge in Projects." If you'd like to read the full paper, click here for the PDF version

Heard a wonderful story last week from a developer friend of mine and thought I'd share (with commentary of course!). He had taken a full-time job at an

This is a guest post written by Heather Johnson, who regularly writes on the topic of career exploration. See her byline at the end of this article for

Management issues had posted another article (see the previous one here and my comments on the topic here) topic titled "Still suspicious of flexible

Over the last few years I've started noticing a trend toward specialization within the field of project management. These specializations seem to break

Management Issues recently published an article titled "Flexible working boosts the bottom line" that reports on some very interesting research results

Well...my wife and I are about to head back to Dallas from Yosemite. The trip was a great one. We spent three days in Yosemite, a day in Kings Canyon /

I'm going to be taking a break from Sunday April 20 to Sunday April 28th. My wife and I are going to Yosemite, San Fransisco and other locales in Northern

I had some technical difficulties today with my website...I changed hosts and it looks like I'm having problems with the DNS changes propagating...I think

One of the projects I've been working on over the last few months is the implementation and customization of a Content Management System (CMS). The CMS

In a previous post titled "The Daily WTF: “Job Interview 2.0?", I talked about an interviewee's response to an interviewer asking him to "Design a House"