About 6 months ago, I started a new job. The former product manager had left about 18 months prior to my arrival, and they "limped" along. Now, I am going through sales presentations, sales training decks and curriculae and I am aghast at what I h...
Two days ago, we pulled the plug on the hapless guy who was on our project. Not that he is a bad resource, but the project we handed him was beyod his scope, and it was flailing. We consulted another group in my company as to who they would recomm...
Those following the thread have seen my comments about a web project going poorly. End root cause is that we went with a vendor which we were "comfortable" with, and didn't figure out up front if he had the chops to deliver. I want to pull back, c...
and on budget. Sigh. There are always some extenuating circumstances: A key component was more difficult to work through. Some circuit design was wrong the first time around (and the second, and the third). Regardless of how many times the design ...
I am working with my Marketing team to get a user community site built. It is a pretty straightforward project that will allow our worldwide user base to connect, share tips, scripts and other related items in the use of our product. To spec this ...
If you have been following the saga, I have been working on a new, groovy and cool web community for my products. Something pretty simple to start to build a community of practice. I have complained in the past about the contractor we are using, w...
I am a huge fan of accessibility, and convenience for my customers. In my new role, we have a product that is a little long in tooth, and the software is a bit dated as well. Working to fix that, but one hangup is our absolutely shitty help system...
Just had an ambush call. (that is when Sales invites you on a call, but "forgets" to clue you in on what is to be discussed). Needless to say, some pretty deep hip waders were needed. The whole premise was that we failed to accomplish some perform...
Long time Mac user here. One utility that I just can't live without is Alsoft's Disk Warrior. I have Drive Genius and MacTools Pro, but neither one "just works" as well as Disk Warrior. A month or so ago, my wife's iMac was behaving wonky, so I gr...
A wicked american piece of heavy metal, a real muscle car, the Mustang 302 Boss. A bitchen car from 1969 and 1970 has been re-introduced. A worthy successor. However, it is a fucking crime against humanity to defenestrate such an awesome machine w...