Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips
There is always one more solution. Sometimes we just need a little more of this or that to see it. And when people claim no more solutions, they are telling us all sorts of things.
I liked Seth Godin’s recent blog post. In it, Seth wrote:
The only possible response … isn’t.
Well said. This is [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
Don’t let recent events explain a current situation when prior events combined with latency provide a better explanation.
I spent a week on the Colorado River going through the Grand Canyon. I am posting a number of stories from that week. In this post, I return to my regular blogging topics [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
My printed book from FastPencil is in hand. It took about three weeks for FastPencil to transform a PDF file to a paperback book. It is 6″x9″ and 155 pages.
Lessons Learned:

10-point font is too small for my eyes
I chose a creme paper instead of white, I wish I had chosen white

I am happy [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
There are problems and there are methods of solving them. Given these two items, there are four cases that can define projects. Let’s consider the cases and how to avoid the more painful ones.
In some of my books I have written about projects that went astray, i.e. they were disasters with money and [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
Systems builders should concentrate on one thing - improving the work of the people who will use the system.
Sometimes we lose sight of what we are doing. We build systems. Why? Well, to make money for our employer. We hope the system makes money for the organization that uses it. This is about [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
Life is full of bad experiences. There is always something that can be learned in each experience. The bad experience is a form of tuition. The learning is a form of education. Nothing guarantees we get the education with the tuition. The education, however, is there for our choosing.
College is pretty simple: you [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
Technical debt in a system builds as changes are made to the system. At some point, the expense and risk of the next change is prohibitive.
This is the first post I will make about fill-in-the-blank debt. These all go back to the concept of technical debt in a technical system.
Systems that are used [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
Situations change and people adapt to those changes. Has adapting to chance taken away your  ability to adapt?
Change is constant
Okay, that is neither original nor brilliant. It does, however, describe my experiences.
Groups of people adapt
Another observation that is neither original nor brilliant.
What many people fail to observe is how to have groups of [...]

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