Agile Development on Infrastructure

After a friend asked about using agile, I started thinking about the skateboard to car drawing.  The author of this, Henrik Kniberg, wrote a really good blog breaking this down, called Making sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product).  This model is absolutely important, and makes a very good case for going about building something brand new. I've spent most of my post-Agile time doing infrastructure projects.  I'm not building a product for end-users....

21 Oct 2017 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Tired of Panic - Paris Climate Accord Edition

The President of the US, Donald Trump, has decided to push for the US to leave the Paris Climate Accord.  The world is imploding!  Well, looking at Twitter it seems the world is imploding. There are certain hot-takes that basically suggest that the world will drown in 3, 2... There are certain hot-takes that basically suggest that we are aligned with Syria by doing this.  (There are those that mention Nicaragua, but that country's non-participation is much more complicated)....

3 Jun 2017 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Trump Boasts of Power Not Attraction

Locker room talk, no it isn't necessarily a locker room.  In any place where one is surrounded by only peers, language and boasts can be sometimes be observed.  The braggadocio is always trying to make themselves seem better. In the context of sexual liaisons here are some samples of things I have heard: She was all over me She couldn’t keep her hands off me I leaned in to ask her something and she just started kissing me She couldn’t resist me...

15 Oct 2016 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Misplaced Pride - and Getting Over It

"You wanted to be a manager so badly, that you'd probably be a good one.  Now you are." Someone said this to me who had heard the same from someone else.  This comes from about three years ago, and was said in the context of my then current role (having moved from process and supervisory management to direct people management).  It bothered me. I first got to be in management, some 20 years ago....

14 Oct 2016 · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink