Enduring Ideas in the Realm of Software
While researching the future, I came across IBM's Global CEO Study: The Enterprise of the Future. It's a compilation and distillation of insights from more than 1,130 CEOs, general managers, and senior public sector and business leaders from around the world. I think of it as a set of "hot spots" for today's CEOs and a set of success patterns for the Enterprise of the future.
This post is a walk through the halls of our Microsoft patterns & practices team workspace. Ward Cunningham among others was a big influence early on in making it happen. The patterns & practices team workspace is optimized for agile development practices. The workspace features writeable walls, configurable workspace, speaker phones, projectors, focus rooms, and …
Photo by CarbonNYC If it’s not broken, then don’t fix it … The problem is, you may have an approach that isn’t working, or it’s not as efficient as it could be, but you may not even know it. Let’s take a quick look at some broken approaches and get to the bottom of why …
Photo by Christian Revival Network Here’s a brief set of success patterns for program managers and project managers that I’ve shared with a few colleagues. These are the patterns I see that make a difference in getting results. 10 Success Patterns Empathic listening. Rapport before influence Character trumps emotion trumps logic Match their style Ask …
My background is such that I am able to straddle the fence between development and business. I got my MBA in Marketing and my MS in Computer Engineering and I have worked in both capacities in the past, although over the past several years, I have focused on building strong Marketing and Product Management teams. I often get asked “What is a Product Manager?”
