Sometimes the decisions are easy.
About 15 months ago, I left Best Buy, where I’d been for 13 years. I joined Digital River to help transform the platform and the company. Today, my colleagues there learned… Read more »
Category: Vaguely Work Related
Slicing: good for bread, bad for people
A loaf of bread is, in most cases, improved by slicing it. This is because a loaf of bread is more than you need; you can make a whole thing… Read more »
Instead of celebrating failure, let’s do science.
One of the closely held tenets of agile software development is that we should “fail fast” – we need to do the thing that’s commonly referred to as failure, because… Read more »
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
When Inigo says to Vizzini “I don’t think (that word) means what you think it means,” it’s possible that he’s making a remarkably insightful statement about both of them. I’m… Read more »
One week in
I started work at Digital River this past week. Here’s my thoughts after the first week. I’m excited. Not only is this a new start for me, which is great,… Read more »
A new chapter begins
13 years is a long time. When I started working at BestBuy.com, the Internet was a lot smaller than it is today. Youtube and Facebook didn’t exist, nobody had heard… Read more »
News, Q’s and Views: Making team meetings better
I work as part of a team of leaders. Each of us has responsibility for one or more teams working on parts of BestBuy.com’s overall Platform effort. We’re also responsible… Read more »
Pairing is hard
I spent about three hours today pairing, and it made my brain really really tired. I’m spending Mondays in the lab, with the ATAT team (Automation Tools and Technologies –… Read more »
Notes from ACCUS – Humility, Appreciating Others and Listening
I attended Agile Coach Camp US (ACCUS, hashtag #accus) over the weekend. It was a fascinating experience. It felt more like gaming or science fiction conventions I have attended than… Read more »
Marketing miss.
So Netflix hiked rates today, and people are upset. I don’t get it. Why the angst? I looked, and as far as I can tell, it’s not a big deal… Read more »