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I have been so busy rebuilding my home office with a Human Solution UPLIFT Desk (more on that another day), I have been remiss in not noting how much I enjoyed a presentation by Mike Rognlien at a morning VitalSmarts conference last Thursday. … [Continue] about This Is Now Your Company
Figured I'd repeat a post I put on LinkedIn this morning: You know that when a book starts off with a forward by Gene Kim and then immediately quotes something written in 1159, it’s going to be great. Congrats to Carmen DeArdo on the release of … [Continue] about New Book: Standing on the Shoulders…
As I said on Twitter, this is like having Eddie Van Halen complement your guitar work. ‘Night all. This is the article Gene is referring to: “Shook Change Model” P.S. I have gotten to speak to Gene Kim a couple times. He is one of the … [Continue] about The Eddie Van Halen of DevOps
After church and lunch at IHOP, I spent the rest of the afternoon creating a Microsoft Teams team (with channels) for a new DevOps & Agile Book Club at work. One of the things I love about both DevOps and Agile is the complete commitment to … [Continue] about DevOps & Agile Book Club
As I work on research for a sermon about why God, when He can accomplish whatever He wants without us, has us help, I recalled of something that Gene Kim said in Beyond the Phoenix Project (a recording he did with John Willis): John Shook wrote … [Continue] about Shook Change Model
Intuition is a handy thing to have in IT. As a former IT Jack-of-all-trades, I could join an outage call and frequently identify what was wrong more quickly than the experts. As a newbie with DevOps, data science, and other emerging IT fields, I … [Continue] about Counterintuitive IT™ (Part 1)
During a quick road trip this past weekend to Goodland, Kansas with my 11-year-old son, I finally opened Theory of Constraints by Eliyahu Goldratt. I didn't read as much as I hoped (but you don't go on a mini-vacation with your munchkin to ignore … [Continue] about Change and Emotion
Recently I was lucky enough to speak with Mik Kersten, author of a new "must read" book, Project to Product, and CEO of Tasktop. Last year, when I completed reading his work, I put this review on Amazon with the title, "A Book that Demands a … [Continue] about A Conversation about Project to Product with Mik Kersten
I just signed up for this brand new Python course...might be even the first student! :-) Courses from the SuperDataScience team are always a great purchase on Udemy. You can get this course for only $17 for 48 hours using this … [Continue] about Becoming a Python Pro
Tonight I began Matt Dancho's course, "DSB4B 201-R: Data Science for Business with R." Even though I've only done the intro section, I am already glad I invested in the class. Clearly a well thought out, professional offering. Now to hit Matt up … [Continue] about DS4B 201-R: Data Science for Business with R