In the first part of my how to map your current strategy using a synergy map, I showed you how to position your projects on a synergy map and how to add size, completion and feelings to it. In this post, I want to show you how to find synergies and conflicts between your goals … Continue reading Synergy Map: How To Map Out Your Current Strategy (Part 2 of 2)
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Synergy Map: How To Map Out Your Current Strategy (Part 1 of 2)
Are you sometimes overwhelmed by all the stuff going on in parallel? Especially when dealing with web operations, urgent tasks can blur your view on what's really important. In my last post about how to stop being busy and get productive instead, I showed a quick way of reconnecting with your goals. In this article, … Continue reading Synergy Map: How To Map Out Your Current Strategy (Part 1 of 2)
Stop Being Busy. Get Productive!
You are busy. Your task list is growing so fast that if you wanted to print it out you'd have to use old-fashioned, continuous listing paper just to keep up. Sometimes you get in the zone checking off task after task, and feeling tremendously productive. Other times, you just sit there immobilized by the sheer … Continue reading Stop Being Busy. Get Productive!
The Curse Of Agile Project Management Tools
Index cards and a story wall are my preferred agile project management tools. They force you to keep things simple due to limited space on index cards and you get optimal visibility through the ubiquitous story wall. Software tools are usually inferior in terms of simplicity and visibility. Most agile project management tools provide you … Continue reading The Curse Of Agile Project Management Tools
I want to start agile, how can I do that?
Last week a new colleague of a former colleague of mine 😉 asked me: "How can I get agile started? I really like the ideas but don't know where to begin or how to convince others around me to try it out. What should I do?" Getting started with agile is not easy. First, you … Continue reading I want to start agile, how can I do that?
Kent Langley Talks About Joyent, Their New Accelerators And Their Use of Opensolaris
Kent Langley is a Senior Director at Joyent, a cloud computing provider running and offering OpenSolaris Nevada based virtual servers, called Accelerators. Not only was he kind enough to answer my questions about his role at Joyent, details about the brand new Accelerator release, and Solaris, but he even brought in Ben Rockwood to give … Continue reading Kent Langley Talks About Joyent, Their New Accelerators And Their Use of Opensolaris
Critical Bugs: Blame Or Chance?
Today we noticed that a feature we released yesterday created a really nasty side effect. While experimenting with a new content structure for AUDI, which was the only one we wanted the search engine bots to crawl, we accidentally invited the bots to crawl all content for all brands. As the content of all other … Continue reading Critical Bugs: Blame Or Chance?
Presentations Without PowerPoint – Tools For Bridging The Gap
Last week, I introduced three key factors to help you connect to a non-technical audience. This week I want to introduce you to some tools and techniques for preparing your presentations. And, no, I'm not going to talk much about using PowerPoint 😉 ... Know Your Goal Every good presentation starts with a message. What … Continue reading Presentations Without PowerPoint – Tools For Bridging The Gap
Presentations Made Simple – How To Connect To A Non Technical Audience
Yesterday I came across Admin Zen by Michael "Mika" Prokop. Admin Zen is a great collection of habits you should try to master if you are responsible for running any critical systems. If you haven't read it, you should do so right now. I'll wait... Barriers For Communication I think communication is one of the … Continue reading Presentations Made Simple – How To Connect To A Non Technical Audience
Using Capistrano For Configuration Management
As I mentioned in my short comparison of Puppet vs. Capistrano, we're currently using Capistrano not only for deployment and live monitoring of our application, but also for configuration management. Using How-To Documents For Configuration Management Before getting started with Capistrano, I used to write very detailed how-to documents to make sure that I didn't … Continue reading Using Capistrano For Configuration Management
