Holiday
Happy New Year!!
I’ll be taking the month of January off to recover, but the Reservoir of Ideas will be replenished again starting in February.
Holiday
The Peace of Christmas Eve
Last week was a (half) marathon. The rest of Christmastime is a sprint. And the season seems to be passing alarmingly fast this year. Turns out, that’s not just perception, it’s fact. Thanksgiving in the United States falls on the fourth Thursday in November. It can be as early as Read more…
Life
St. Jude (Half) Marathon Weekend
Each race has its own personality. At least so far. I haven’t done enough that they run together. This was my fifth year participating in St. Jude Marathon Weekend. The first year was to try to stay active during COVID, so I started walking/running around the neighborhood. My goal was Read more…
Architecture Data Architecture Holiday
Architecting Santa’s List: The Naughty-Nice Database
You never know what’s going to happen when you click on a LinkedIn job posting button. I’m always on the lookout for interesting and impactful projects, and one in particular caught my attention: “Far North Enterprises, a global fabrication and distribution establishment, is looking to modernize a very old data Read more…
Architecture Migration Project Management
Focus on the OTHERWISE and ELSE
Whenever you get a bunch of technical architects in a room with a whiteboard and markers, it’s not going to be long before somebody goes up to the board and draws a box. Doesn’t matter the kind of architect: solution, application, infrastructure, enterprise, and, yes, data. We love whiteboards. We Read more…
Data Regulation Information Management Leadership
Is legislating data protection working?
When was the last time you ran outside when you heard a car alarm? I remember once driving an old, heavy, muffler-challenged vehicle through a parking garage and setting off every car alarm in my wake. They made a lot of noise, but I don’t remember anybody rushing to the Read more…
Beekeeping
Drones, Burgers, and Quilts
The primary goals of beekeeping are straightforward. Make sure they have enough space. Make sure they have enough food and water. Control nasty bugs. And get them through the winter. Hives that make it through the winter are the most reliable honey producers the next summer. I prefer to harvest Read more…
Leadership Project Management
Celebrating 6 Secrets for Delivering Impossible Projects
Do you gravitate toward the most difficult problems? Do you seek out the most interesting and impactful challenges? If so, then 6 Secrets for Delivering Impossible Projects will give you the tools to successfully deliver your own Impossible Projects On Tuesday, October 29th, family, friends, and colleagues gathered at the Read more…
Data Quality Data Value
It’s Not the Absolute Value of Your Data, It’s the Increasing the Value of Your Data
Data Value. OK. Hot topic. I’d be remiss if I didn’t say something about how data is the new oil or the new bacon or the new hot fudge lava cake with hand-churned vanilla bean ice cream drizzled with chocolate caramel sauce. Got it. So, let’s see. I have this Read more…
Architecture Data Debt Project Management
Look Before You Leap – Analytical Data Consolidation Edition
What’s not to love about a good enterprise analytical data consolidation project? You can just see the PowerPoint slide, can’t you? On the left, boxes like stars in a clear night sky, each representing some number of analytical repositories or data sources. On the right, one nice big box. Neat, Read more…