Notes from the desk.

Roadmap reviews when half the work is non-deterministic

“I stole four columns from my therapist; my engineers stopped sighing.”

The discipline of thanks

“A thank-you note is a roadmap artifact. Fight me about it later.”

Evals before vibes — a starter kit

“A small repository you can copy on a Wednesday.”

Hiring a forward-deployed PM

“What to look for, what to skip, what to apologize for.”

How to Break a single MD file into multiple docs

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“Alright, team, let’s talk prioritization. We’ve all been there. Staring at a backlog that’s longer than a CVS receipt, feeling the cold sweat of indecision. Do you tackle the big,…”

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10 Game-Changing Project Management Trends for 2022

“Hold onto your Gantt charts, folks – 2022 is about to shake up project management like a snow globe at a toddler convention. Based on emerging patterns and industry whispers, here’s what’ll dominat…”

2021's PM Tsunami: 10 Trends You Can't Surf Past ????

“Project Management, Future Trends, Workplace Strategy /categories post # Grab Your Board: 2021’s Project Management Megatrends Plot twist: Waterfall just joined TikTok. Hybrid work became your new …”

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“There are various ways to describe the boundaries of a project. The simplest of these is ‘The Golden Triangle’ that includes four dimensions. These are used when determining both the limits of the …”

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“Picture this: It’s 2019. Project managers are juggling Gantt charts like circus performers, while Waterfall and Agile fanboys argue in Slack channels. Meanwhile, the project management gods w…”

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“1. AI: Your New BFF (Best Forecasting Friend) Forget crystal balls – Artificial Intelligence is the fortune-teller of the future! In 2019, AI will become your secret weapon for: Pro tip: Embrace th…”

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“Agile product owners are critical to every agile team’s success and it just might be the toughest role on the team. If your Agile projects result in valuable products quickly, you likely have…”

New Course – Agile Retrospectives: Make Good Teams Great

“In this course, Agilisto Luke Angel outlines the tools needed to successfully run a great retrospective. Including the five phases: setting the right direction, getting all of the issues on the tab…”

New Course: Agile Reporting – Beginner To Rock Star

“Agile expert Luke Angel outlines a process for reporting on the progress of your agile project. Agile reports should be simple and easy to read, and radiate information across the room to the entir…”

New Course – Learn How To Drive Effective, Efficient Agile Meetings

“Many new agile teams think flexibility in their meetings allows them to do whatever feels right. In reality, agile projects move more smoothly by running short, well-structured activities. Each act…”

New Course – Project Management Fundamentals – Stake Holder Management

“Do you want to Create healthy partnerships with your stakeholders and build a win-win environment for your business then this course is right for you. In this course, author and PMP Luke Angel show…”

New Course – WordPress E-Commerce With WooCommerce: Novice To Store Owner

“Learn How to Build an E-Commerce Website By using WordPress and WooCommerce Plugin, Building an online complete shopping store. WooCommerce is the leading ecommerce plugin for working with WordPres…”

New Course SharePoint 2016 Metadata, Columns, Lists, Taxonomy and More

“SharePoint can be an instrument to take your data records to the next level. The problem no explains the weird little bits. In this course, we are going to tackle how to implement a awesome taxonom…”

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“Whether you are a hard core share point user or just getting started this course has something for you. This course will teach you how take a SharePoint list and transform it into a full functionin…”

New Course – Microsoft Project Reporting – Beginner To Rock Star

“Stakeholders and team members better understand project performance when they can actually see the project plan and how work is progressing. Follow along with project management expert Luke Angel a…”

Docker + Servless = FaaS (Functions As A Service)

“So what Is Faas? FaaS is a framework for building serverless functions on Docker Swarm with first class support for metrics. Any UNIX process can be packaged as a function enabling you to consume a…”

Robots Take on the Small Farm

“I recently stumbled upon cool small farm robots. I was super impressed so I decided to dig a little deeper and this is what I found. Oz, made by Naio Technologies in France and shown here on French…”

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“Love to see robots in new fields. I just stumbled onto Naïo Technologies manufactures agribots for vegetable farms to help with weeding. The Naïo robots use lasers and camera guidance to move auton…”

New Course – Microsoft Flow Up And Running Code-less Automated Workflows

“With the cloud-based Microsoft Flow, you can quickly and easily build custom automations from your desktop, laptop, or mobile device without needing to write a single line of code. In this course, …”

opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

““Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work” – Thomas Edison”

Agile Hardware Development – Part 1

“Although Agile principles can be applied with benefit in hardware product development (Agile hardware development), it misses the mark in terms of a complete solution for hardware product developme…”

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“You pretty much have to have your head in the sand not to notice the changes in hardware product design innovation and new product development that are condensing product delivery timelines. Here a…”

Open-Source Mobile Test Automation Tools

“Mobile applications have become increasingly important for businesses these days, and consumers are demanding higher quality apps for their mobile devices. Adapting to this new demand, testing team…”

“We Don’t See Things As They Are, We See Them As We Are” – anonymous

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New Course – Node.js: The Essentials + API Frameworks Express KOA Sails

“In the Course I review how Node.js, a lightweight and efficient platform for building network apps. In this course Luke Angel Leads you down the path to get your first pieces of code and understand…”

New Course – Angular 2 Router: Up and Running

“Angular 2’s router comes with many features for routing based on path’s and loading specific components. This course gives you a fast and furious intro to how to configure your routes, navigate bet…”

“When forming a solution to a problem we have two eyes two ears and one mouth and we should use them in that proportion” IIse Crawford

““When forming a solution to a problem we have two eyes two ears and one mouth and we should use them in that proportion” IIse Crawford”

Stars can't shine without darkness

“Stars can’t shine without darkness”

Pet Finder API JavaScript Library

“I just published a package Javascript Library to help work with the Pet Finder API. I found JSON and their API in general to be very challenging to work with. This library facilitates the calls and…”

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“Docker 1.13 is Out with lots of new features, improvements and fixes to help Docker users with New Year’s resolutions to build more and better container apps. Docker 1.13 builds on and improv…”

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“We all know that Docker is simple to get up and running on our local machines. If you don’t click on the banners below and I’ll teach you. But seamlessly transitioning our honed applica…”

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“Applications requirements and networking environments are diverse and sometimes opposing forces. In between applications and the network sits Docker networking, affectionately called the Container …”

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“In this post i am going to revie the basic building blocks of Angular applications. The Angular is a framework for building client applications in HTML and either JavaScript or a language (like Dar…”

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“In this post I am going to describe how to create and use ssh-rsa and .pem format public and private key files on Windows that you can use to connect to your Linux VMs on Azure with the ssh command…”

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“The goal of this example is to show you how to get a Node.js application into a Docker container. The guide is intended for development, and not for a production deployment. The guide also assumes …”

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“Docker monitoring of servers and containers is becoming necessary the more Docker hosts and containers we provision. This tutorial will walk you through how to glue together several different compo…”

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“I often get asked the question on which is the superior approach to project management, Waterfall or Agile? That’s a good question but its not the right question. Instead, you should ask&#823…”

The break-neck automation of tasks once performed by people — by intelligent software and physical infrastructure — will bring new expectations of efficiency, value, convenience and delight.

“The break-neck automation of tasks once performed by people — by intelligent software and physical infrastructure — will bring new expectations of efficiency, value, convenience and delight.”

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“The Modern JavaScript ecosystem has reached the point of maturity where some projects are becoming the de-facto standard. Build system veterans such as Grunt and Gulp were first challenged by Brows…”

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“While motorized human transporters have yet to truly take off, the folks over at Nissan have come up with something more practical for the time being: self-parking office chairs. With a single clap…”

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“Entrepreneurs are the only people who will work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week”

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“Lean innovation is being embraced by everyone — from the smallest start-ups to the largest global organizations. But in most cases, it’s still falling well short of its full potential because it ei…”

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“I tend to get a lot of projects that start with a launch date and then come to me with a product vision and little else. This requires the reverse of normal planning forward technique. We now need …”

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“While I was at an event last weekend I got into conversation where I was explaining to a group of people what the term IoT(internet of things) means. Since the term is used so broadly now I can see…”

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“By being a pet foster parent, you provide a temporary home for an animal prior to adoption. Fostering animals is a wonderful and personal way to contribute to saving homeless pets. Dogs and cats ar…”

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“By historical standards, writing code is easy. Today we enjoy enormously powerful tools like IntelliSense, auto-complete, syntax coloring, error highlighting and support through communities like St…”

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“At NG-Conf 2014, Brian gave an excellent talk on zones and how they can change the way we deal with asynchronous code. If you haven’t watched this talk yet, give it a shot, it’s just ~15 minutes lo…”

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“My key take away on this for new projects is to keep it simple. Far to often we gone down the path of the best architecture for twitter scale when we should be concentrating on getting value to our…”

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“Every person these days wants a mobile version of their website. It’s practically essential after all: one design for the Android, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle — and all screen…”

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“Cascading Style Sheets Operate on Inheritance CSS has a ancestor-descendant relationships. Anything previously defined by an ancestor will automatically be inherited by one of its children unless o…”

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“Dependency injection has always been one of Angular’s biggest features and selling points. It allows us to inject dependencies in different components across our applications, without needing to kn…”

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“Did you know that you can walk dogs and play with cats at your local animal shelter? Its a great way to workout, find a new friend and GIVE back to your community. When I started volunteering at my…”

Run Windows and Linux Containers on Windows 10

“At DockerCon 2016 in Seattle Docker announced the public beta of Docker for Windows. With this you can work with Docker running Linux containers in a very easy way on Windows 10 Pro with Hyper-V in…”

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“The Docker Ecosystem: Scheduling and Orchestration Introduction The Docker tool provides all of the functions necessary to build, upload, download, start, and stop containers. It is well-suited for…”

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“Netflix Data Pipeline With Kafka from wangxia5 Building out the event based messaging using Apache’s Kafka. Keeping this in the back pocket for future integrations.”

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“Introduction When constructing distributed systems to serve Docker containers, communication and networking become extremely important. Service-oriented architecture, undeniably, relies heavily upo…”

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“Introduction Containers provide an elegant solution for those looking to design and deploy applications at scale. While Docker provides the actual containerizing technology, many other projects ass…”

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“Set aside thoughts of mince pies and look ahead to what’s in store for wearable tech in 2016. 50. Gran Turismo Sport The upcoming 2016 VR explosion needs games and games don’t get much …”

Docker: An Introduction to Common Components

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