Blogging and Productivity on the road

One of the challenges that we have as technologists and bloggers is the ability to find time to blog no keep up with learning while still maintaining a good life balance. I had an article nearly done for today’s #vDM30in30 but this seemed like the ideal time to approach this subject instead. Writing on the … Read more

Why Kanban Makes me Better at Life

If you’ve been following along some of the #vDM30in30 content I’ve been doing lately, you’ll notice a trend towards some non-technical content. I know that over the years I’ve been known as the PowerShell person, then the VMware person, then the OpenStack person. The reason that I’ve been changing the focus along the way was … Read more

A Quick Primer on the Theory of Constraints

If you’ve been watching my blog, or heard me speak about The Phoenix Project, you may have some familiarity with something that I refer to all the time which is the Theory of Constraints and Technical Debt. This post is a quick primer on the Theory of Constraints, and I’ll dive into Technical Debt in … Read more

#vDM30in30 – 30 Post in 30 Days and Why it’s Important

Recently, I saw a post by Greg Ferro, also known as @EtherealMind on Twitter, who blogs at EtherealMind.com with some really great information specializing on networking, but with much more than that on his site. The post was called the 30 blogs in 30 days challenge which I’ve seen in the past, and I love … Read more