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Striving to be a Son of Light
“Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter” — Yoda
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Lessons learned about being a fast-follower from driving around a new rental car
I don’t normally write reviews of automobiles. I felt compelled to write this one because of its relationship to addressing market demands. The car I drove this week was obviously targeted at a hyper-niche of the global automotive market: The Millennials. The design concepts are what I think are a good example learning how to…
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“A Musician Must Make Music…”
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.” — Abraham Maslow I had the rich pleasure to hear the William Peace University Peace Singers and Florida College Saturday night. That evening the Florida College students were spread amongst many volunteers hosts…
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Introducing the Skills Canvas for Defining Roles
Recently a old friend of mine from India, CEO Navin Kumar of iPRIMED, approached me about helping him bring his company’s services to the U.S. from India. iPRIMED is led by people from the IT industry and academia who are focused on enhancing workplace skills of graduates / entry / junior level professionals (for the IT and ITeS…
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Scaling Agile Doesn’t Necessarily Lead to Business Agility
You don’t scale agility. You create a business-market fit with adaption capability.
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The Awesome Singh Estimation Technique (TASET)
Introduction I spoke to the DC Scrum Users Group this topic around a year ago and wanted to unleash this virus on the world. The Awesome Singh Estimation Technique (TASET) is a technique learned from Alex Singh and honed over the course of two years while working with BigVisisble’s clients and recently while working with…
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Who Owns the Space In Between?
GUEST BLOGGER Stuart Scott “Making space for powerful conversations” After 20+ years in the software business, Stuart tends to look at software development in terms of human interactions. After all, most of the effort that goes into creating, selling, and using software consists of people working with people to serve people. And most…
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Why I predict the 2013 Mac Pro will be DOA
Apple gave us another look at the 2013 Mac Pro this week at the update release announcement for the iPad line. Today another person noted what I’ve been mulling over for some time: the interesting design is missing two major features that will keep it out of the hands of a lot of video, audio…
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Lessons Learned From Five Years of Agile Implementation Failures – AgileDC 2013 Presentation
< p> Well, another year of AgileDC is in the can. This year was another winner. Even though the flavor at AgileDC is always biased towards the Federal Government, it was strange that the topics seemed to be diverse and more engaging than those at the Agile Alliance‘s Agile 2013. I confess that the topics…
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Review of Writing Kit for iPad
Review of Writing Kit for iPad
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