Posts with keyword: management

5 entries

Clean Sheets and Strategy

Mon Aug 16 14:34:00 2021

Most of the activities IT performs aren't strategic. Like clean sheets, they're important, but not differentiating. How do you determine what's strategic? Evaluate the domains of your business.
Continue reading {Clean Sheets and Strategy }

Clay Loveless: Understanding API Usage

Thu Nov 18 16:30:00 2010

I was in a Point-of-View session at Defrag with Laura Merling of Alcatel-Lucent, Brian Mulloy of Apigee, and Clay Loveless of Mashery. Laura and Brian gave interesting talks, but since they went before me, I was too occupied to take notes. I did take notes for Clay's talk, however, since he went after me. :-) Clay gave six tips for making an API work: Test it all. Unit tests are just the beginning, but if you don't have them yet, don't start there. Instead, test what your user's experience with end-to-end black box tests. Replaying your access logs is
Continue reading {Clay Loveless: Understanding API Usage}

Are MBAs Too Dumb to Use RSS?

Wed Mar 14 22:03:00 2007

I was over at between the lines and saw an ad for BNET. I don't usually click on online ads, but I was intrigued. BNET is a business Web site. I found an article on The 7 Interview Questions You Must Ask, which I thought was pretty good. Make no mistake: this is not Harvard Business Review. The articles are short and entertaining, perfectly matched to our ADD culture. Still, I enjoyed reading some of them and I'll probably be back. One thing that's a little shocking: no RSS feed. What are these guys thinking? Aren't MBAs smart enough
Continue reading {Are MBAs Too Dumb to Use RSS?}

Putt's Law

Wed Mar 14 14:39:00 2007

If you like Dilbert, you'll love Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat. At least that's my conclusion after listening to Susan Hassler interview Archibald Putt on IT Conversations as part of the IEEE Spectrum Radio series. Putt isn't the author's real name. In fact it's a psuedonym that Putt has used since 1976. The first version of this book came out in 1981 and is most famous for Putt's law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. Reading some of the
Continue reading {Putt's Law}

Management By the Identity Method

Thu Aug 10 15:02:00 2006

While he's been on vacation, Joel Spolsky has been airing a set of pre-recorded posts on three management methods which he calls Command and Control management, Econ 101 management, and the Identity Method of management, not to be confused with managing identities. Steve cooking dead cow(click to enlarge) Joel saved the method he recommends, identity management, for last, spending the first few days shooting holes in Command and Control and Econ 101 as management methods. There's nothing here that you haven't read somewhere before, but Joel has a great way of writing and he's speaking about what's worked for
Continue reading {Management By the Identity Method}