You work your best, you are about to put something in place, you test it out and you realize you start knocking down other systems. There’s that moment in most software architect’s careers where they realize that there WAS something that they didn’t take into account, it was everything outside of the application itself.
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Domino Effect – Unintended Cons...
You work your best, you are about to put something in place, you test it out and you realize you start knocking down other systems. There’s that moment in most software architect’s careers where they realize that there WAS something that they didn’t take into account, it was everything outside of the application itself.
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The Grass isn’t just greener, t...
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On Monday I re-start my life running my own consulting company, an endeavour I started with my wife when I left Microsoft years ago, but somehow got derailed from along the way. There are a number of reasons, some of which I’ll share in another posting as they provide good poin [...]
Power of Belief and Faith in the indi...
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This evening I was reminded of the power of believing in someone, the power in giving them such psychological cover-fire that they are able to accomplish what you truly believed they could but that they couldn’t see. The butterfly is the symbol of my daughter, and she reminded me of this tonight.
There [...]
Strange Happenings
For some reason my blogs, hosted at GoDaddy, are no longer able to be accessed by SOME computers on SOME ISPs in the Montreal area. I’m trying to figure this out, and suffice it to say that it is an adventure in aggrevation.
However, seriously, Videotron’s customer service provided by online chat has been AMAZING. I never thought [...]
Career Direction
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Most people work at comes where the succession of titles and roles are very organized and very limited. You don’t get that if you work at a consulting company and so the issues can be amplified all the more when you are in situations were you need to direct yourself.
If you push for a promotion real [...]
But I don’t want to!
Driss Zouak © 2010
I love this picture for so many reasons, one of which is the question is she annoyed or is she about to break out into a smile, or both? This is very much the case with how the skills market is today. There’s an interesting article over at TheGlobeAndMail talking about the potential permanent change to the US job mark [...]
Who are you?
A Tablet PC
Technically is this not a tablet PC? The letters PC on a tablet, and therefore by definition and grammatical rules of rearrangement, a tablet PC. Given our current culture’s allowance of Unnecessary Capitalization for the purposes of Emphasis, it is a Tablet PC. Now I understand how we can see them being sold for $10 a pop, [...]
Fitting In and Finding Our Nature
Most of us assume that we know ourselves well, and yet other people can sometimes disagree with such a degree of conviction that we are left wondering.When it comes to work life, any kind of project team in particular, acting against your nature can increase your stress and reduce your effectiveness.
A long time ago I really wanted to be a &# [...]
Hang Your Hopes of Change
Jen and I had an interesting conversation recently which then seemed to get continued with different people, cultural and organizational change is on the minds of many, whether it is about national politics, businesses or the medical system. Very interesting.
I’ve been wondering for a couple of years why some organizations never get pas [...]
Ideas? Change? RUN!
The other day I was thinking about projects, about the changes that a friend’s business is going through and a notion occurred to me. He’s having a hard time dealing with making changes to his business that will improve things, and he knows he should do them, but actually doing them is hard. So why isn’t he doing them? That& [...]