Not that I am remodeling, or anything that ambitious, but I have some advice nonetheless. When you remodel say a bathroom, and there are two sinks (his/hers, very common), don't buy just two sets of fixtures. Buy a spare. This is so that in 5/7/10...
I was in a meeting yesterday, and our engineering director made an offhand comment that made me cringe. He commented that our principal developer for one of our products (he really is the only programmer) "like most good programmers" was a physici...
A doctor, a lawyer and a product manager were discussing the relative meritsof having a wife or a mistress. The lawyer says: "For sure a mistress is better. If you have a wife andwant a divorce, it causes all sorts of legal problems." The doctor s...
Gotta whine. About once a month, I get an error in Outlook. Something to the point of "OUt of resources" yada yada. And it advises to "close some programs to free up memory..." Has that EVER worked? Sigh. I have 16 gigs, and am running 64-bit Wind...
I recently joined this company, and inherited a product that is world class. But it is missing a pretty important capability (to be fair, when the product was originally developed, this was a feature that wasn't even a twinkling in the eye of the ...
The joy of working in a large enterprise. We have been working with a web development partner for some new sites and moving some older sites to their hosting. Part of this means that we have been exchanging details on the web sites we are migratin...
You are sitting in you cube, listening to some kick ass tunes in your headphones, and an engineer drops in. "I need you to change spec X". My response is to ask why, like all good product managers do. Invariably there are three answers It is impos...
Sometimes you stumble across someone who has accomplished so much in life that it makes you ponder your own life path. This happens frequently with me, but a few days ago, I bought the latest Paul Gilbert album, Vibrato (kick ass guitar work), and...
Ah, I am procrastinating in the preparation of my decks for the sales meeting and/or training next week, I have come to reflect on the whole concept. I have written in the past on "Sales Meeting Musings", as have others, including a snark filled c...
At the referral of a friend several years ago, I joined the GLG group to offer myself as an expert. I have a lot of knowledge of a lot of technologies, and companies. I got my invitation, filled it out, took their ethics training (every year), set...