Managing Tech Debt in the Modern Development Shop
Let’s talk about technical debt in software engineering and development. Understand it and understand how to manage it and prevent it from managing you.
Why and How Cyber Criminals Attack Small Businesses
The challenge that small businesses face is daunting. In this day and age, there are bad actors around the globe that earn their living by compromising businesses, and those cybercriminals are just as good at their jobs as the small business owner is at selling and delivering their products and services. When is the last…
Storing Passwords in the Browser Isn’t the Real Problem
If you follow tech news, it happens about every other day when some blog post goes viral which says, “why you shouldn’t store passwords in Chrome”, “why you should dump Chrome”, etc. And when I say “viral”, by that I mean it gets picked up by news aggregator sites like Google News, and then posted…
Robotic Vacuums: How To Not Be Disappointed
Any time anyone is at my house, they are sure to be intrigued by my robot vacuum that runs three times a day. It truly is a necessity if there are pets in the house because frequent vacuuming keeps pet hair under control. But who has time to vacuum a few times a day? Full…
Log4j Vulnerability Underscores a Negative Side Effect of Open Source
I am not going to talk about the Log4j vulnerability and how to determine if you are impacted and how to recover. I am sure there are plenty of articles on that. In my view, the more important discussion is had by taking a hard look at the open source software model and considering the…
Why You Shouldn’t Answer Facebook Posts Asking Seemingly Benign Questions
Within the past 30 minutes, three of my Facebook friends have answered posts from “Thinkarete Lifestyle”, and I about feel out of my chair. Let me explain why, and why you should not do this. In short, these questions are designed to get you to expose little bits of information which, when they are all…
A Project Manager’s Thanksgiving
Everyone is a project manager. Whether they know it or not, or if they don’t know the names of the common things one does managing work, it is project management. Let’s look at the typical Thanksgiving holiday meal. Planning Whether you do it formally or not, there is some form of menu planning. Let’s assume…
Definitive Guide: What Makes a Senior IT Project Manager
I’ve been a project manager since the year 2000, and technically longer than that — though that is when I took on the title and performed nothing but project management. What I want to explore today is what are the things that make one a “senior project manager”. Whether you are a hiring manager looking…
Fake Emails & Small Businesses
Why you need to secure your email domain, and how to do that.
The Data Dimension of Modern IT Projects
What skills should IT project managers possess to thrive today and into the future? Veteran Project Manager Thomas Carlisle describes how data mining is crucial in modern projects,