Management
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Buyer Beware
This is a follow-up to my post on fixed-price contracts written some time ago. It was a surprisingly popular post, and I received some interesting feedback and many new ideas. Now procurement matters. Most enterprises buy far more than they build, and that isn’t going to change soon. Getting a decent bang for the buck… Continue reading
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Leaving the Cloud
There’s much talk now about how the cloud is passé, and just an expensive way to send people into space really. A blog post by David Heinemeier Hansson posted some time ago about how he thinks the cloud is largely new coats of paint on old stuff and thus wants to leave it behind at… Continue reading
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Banana Peels & Getting Things Done
A team of smart driven people get together in a room, all focused on a project and eager to progress. Two months of meetings later, the project is still drifting along, not quite getting to closure. Have you wondered why this happens? Why do seemingly smart people with the best of intentions slip on the… Continue reading
About Me
This blog is about my ramblings on technology and management, gathered from years of trying to do many wonderful and fascinating things with technology. Most importantly I find the interactions of humans with computers fascinating – how the to extract use from computers in their various forms, from washing machines to large language models.
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