Honest thinking about technology decisions.

As some of you may know, I've talked about agile methodologies in software development in previous blog posts (see links below). The topic of Agile

I've been a little quite lately due to being extremely busy with the Boy Scouts of America. We recently migrated the main site from a flat file HTML

I just read an interesting article at Tyner Blain titled "Specializing Generalists and the Politics of Agile"that is a good follow up to my "Better to be

Jeff Attwood over at Coding Horror wrote a great article titled "The Years of Experience Myth" that everyone should add to their 'must read' list. The

I'm sure most of us have heard of "Buzzword Bingo" and some have probably played it a time or too. It's a fun game that should get people thinking about

It seems like I've had this discussion recently with quite a few people...not sure if its because I like the topic or if lots of other people like it to.

"Employee Engagement" is one of those 'buzzwords' that you hear thrown about quite a bit...but this is a buzzword that should be carefully thought about

I have an official offer to replace my Saturn Aura.. I can select from any GM product and have settled on a Saab 93.   We'll see how the process goes- but

Well...it looks like Saturn might be doing the right thing now. Just received a call from Saturn's National Assistance Center and was told that they will

90% of the work is completed in 10% of the time....the remaining 10% of the effort is completed in 90% of the scheduled time. I've heard of the 80/20

I found this book last weekend at the local Half-Price Books and thought I'd give it a read. This well known book, and its author Nicholas Carr, has been

For background, see here, here, here, here and here. Car has been in the shop for a week now with no response from the dealership. Saturn National

Scot Herrick over at CubeRules had a very interesting post today titled "Innovating Like Crazy; Executing Like Crap". Great title and great thoughts in

For background, see here, here, here and here. The car is back in the shop....waiting to hear from the dealership on the prognosis. FYI - I'm filing the

Diamond Consultants released the results of their Digital IQ Survey recently (download the full survey here) that provides some very interesting (and