Pivoting and Accepting Being Wrong

While we are on the track of studying the Theory of Constraints and Technical Debt, one of the interesting things that I’ve discovered is missing from many people’s day-to-day activities is the evaluation of whether we are wrong. Being wrong happens all the time, and that’s fine. The problem comes when we are wrong, but … Read more

Pay Yourself First: The Art of Reducing Technical Debt

Hopefully you’ve read yesterday’s post about my quick primer on the Theory of Constraints (TOC). This is the foundation for what we are going to talk about today which is the art of reducing technical debt. You may have already heard me talk about this before, and it’s something that I strive towards on a … 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

The Making of Virtual Design Master

You can blame Spike TV for this one, because in a strange way that is how Virtual Design Master got started. I’ve never been much of a regular TV watcher, but for some reason I had been told about a show called Ink Master which was about taking a group of tattoo artists from all … Read more