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The Lies We Tell Ourselves

by Richard W Bown
August 21, 2022August 21, 2022

When you use the tools around you to collect your thoughts, do you think you’re doing valuable work? When you automate a piece of your… Read More »The Lies We Tell Ourselves

The Emperor’s New Clothes

by Richard W Bown
August 16, 2022August 16, 2022

You might have heard the expression before, it comes from the Hans Christian Andersen fable, and it means: To ignore the fact that something is… Read More »The Emperor’s New Clothes

Users: The Hidden Opportunity in SaaS

by Richard W Bown
August 8, 2022June 25, 2023

Get ready for an obvious statement: things have changed a lot over the last 30 years of IT. How did IT used to be organised?… Read More »Users: The Hidden Opportunity in SaaS

How the MVP has lost its meaning

by Richard W Bown
July 26, 2022April 30, 2023

Following up from yesterday’s post on Minimal Viable Product, I received some great feedback on just how the MVP has lost its way. A couple… Read More »How the MVP has lost its meaning

Doing the Minimal Viable Product

by Richard W Bown
July 25, 2022

Much is made of the MVP – the Minimal Viable Product – but so rarely is it executed in a meaningful and valuable way. So… Read More »Doing the Minimal Viable Product

Show No Fear

by Richard W Bown
July 23, 2022

Got those servers hanging around with Windows NT still on them? Got that VM sitting in prod which might be a bastion host or it… Read More »Show No Fear

What Kind of a Business are You?

by Richard W Bown
July 15, 2022August 2, 2022

A while back I had the great idea of writing a web app that would do easy and secure video and PDF embedding for websites.… Read More »What Kind of a Business are You?

Making Your Promise to Your Customer, Early

Making The Promise To Your Customer, Early

by Richard W Bown
July 14, 2022July 16, 2022

Yesterday’s email about incident management led me to find another interesting and related podcast. Reducing On-Call Engineer Burnout with a Volunteer Management Infrastructure from TopEndDevs.com… Read More »Making The Promise To Your Customer, Early

Engineering vs Product Management

by Richard W Bown
July 2, 2022August 2, 2022

The engineer has a mindset which leaps on solutions. Because of the way that we are wired, our solution-orientation makes us sometimes harder to approach… Read More »Engineering vs Product Management

Does Your Sector Matter?

by Richard W Bown
June 29, 2022July 16, 2022

Are you in the charity sector? Are you in the retail sector? Are you in communications? Are you in the banking sector? Are you in… Read More »Does Your Sector Matter?