On technical debt.
I solved a major domestic technical debt project last weekend. In my basement I had a box of cables, chargers, adapters etc. There was also a monitor that I hadn't used for a decade, and various other bits and pieces, including a shoe box of old batteries, and a...
Made in Germany
This post originally appeared in German on the Haufe Personal website. I write a regular column there, covering #HRTECH. I figured I'd post the english draft here. Thanks Michaela for the German translation. You may know the back story about "Made in Germany“, but let...
A wee thought on machine learning and data provenance.
This morning on twitter I read a rather amusing story. https://twitter.com/r_speer/status/1298297872228786176 This would go someway, but not all the way, to explain this. (BBC Voice recognition comedy). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3lYLphzAnw In all seriousness...
Joining the Immedis board
One of the first engagements I had after launching Otter Advisory was with Scottish Equity Partners. I helped them with due diligence for an investment in an Irish global payroll provider, Immedis.As is the job in due diligence, I looked under the covers and...
On APIs and Onions.
I as I have said before, if were to have my time over as a product leader again, I would have been more assertive and downright belligerent about making sure that APIs were absolutely central to product design, and that no code would ship without a properly...
Rhinos and Enterprise Product Management. The Really Hot Interesting New Opportunity. Advice for Product Managers.
A chat with James Governor about HIPPOs caused me to search fruitlessly for a post that I knew I had written, and then find it lurking in my draft folder. Several tech companies, for instance, IBM, Dimension Data (now NTT) and...
AI kool-aid consumption: naivety and hubris?
The ability of AI technology and automation to discriminate at scale is well documented. Just this week we have seen both IBM and Amazon back-peddle on face recognition technologies. The dismal record of corporate recruitment sites for accessibility has been my hobby...
Product demo advice from Delia and Nat.
Recently I saw two product demos. Both were about 15 minutes long, but they were very different. One worked really well and one didn't. Both products are innovative and exciting. One demo was done by a professional pre-sales person. It told a simple story. Every field...
Doing the podcast/webcast/video thingy. With Jason Averbook.
I was an early adopter of podcasts. Craig Cmehil and I experimented with it back in the days of the Apple nano. After a long break, I'm gradually easing back on to the airwaves, thanks Dennis. The super smart folks at Utmost have invited Jason Averbook and me to talk...
Microsoft do this very well. So should you. #MSBuild
I spent some time this evening watching the Microsoft build event, mainly James Phillips' session on the Power stuff. (That isn't the proper name, but you know what I mean). I'll go back and watch the main keynotes, probably once I have read what my analyst peers make...