Author: Matt
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Warfighting Book Club – Week Four
Week Four is the final week in the Warfighting Book Club, relating the Marine Corps doctrinal publication Warfighting to business agility. This is probably my favorite chapter in the book. Several of the sections (Philosophy of Command, Commander’s Intent, Surfaces and Gaps) would be worth an entire week’s discussion on their own. For facilitators, adding…
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Warfighting Book Club – Week Three
This is Week Three in the Warfighting Book Club, relating the Marine Corps doctrinal publication Warfighting to business agility. This section is not my favorite, but raises a lot of good questions to consider organizationally. Warfighting Week Three Leader’s Notes and Questions [Page numbers and quotes are taken from Warfighting, MCDP 1, 2019 Edition]
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Warfighting Book Club – Week Two
This is Week Two in the Warfighting Book Club, relating the Marine Corps doctrinal publication Warfighting to business agility. This was a great, meaty section. I left a lot of possible topics and questions off the list because we only had so much time to discuss. Warfighting Week Two Leader’s Notes and Questions [Page numbers…
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Warfighting Book Club – Week One
One of the best books on agile development or business agility is Warfighting, Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication #1. It takes a little bit of work to translate from the military domain to the business domain, but it’s worth it, in much the same way that The Art of War is. I recently led a book…
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Vizio TV Audio Issues – They’re (Mostly) Fixable!
My family has owned a Vizio TV (model V555-H11) for a while, keeping it disconnected from the internet and using as a dumb display for other devices. The picture has been fine. The audio has had some issues. We have experienced sound cutting out during quiet parts of movies, often accompanied by a quiet-but-perceptible-and-pretty-annoying-once-you-notice-it popping…
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A Tale of Two Onboardings
Beginnings, like this one, are important. A good beginning draws you in, puts you in the right frame of mind to engage with upcoming ideas or events, and makes you want more. A good beginning might be funny, action-packed1, raise burning questions, make you feel a need, or enrage you. A bad beginning doesn’t do…
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Overloaded systems and how maintenance fails interestingly
I’m married and have three kids in the elementary and middle school age ranges. They’re doing things that normal kids do: growing, learning, being active, participating in sports and other activities. My wife and I both work. Our baseline level of “busy” is relatively high, as it is for any family with three kids at…
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Outcomes for Employees
This started as a blog post for the HI Digital Solutions blog, and never got posted for some reason. I’m pretty sure it had to do with it being drafted in April 2020. I think some things may have been happening around then. Anyway, I’m (re?) posting it here (which works out fine, because the…
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Making states explicit
My team uses Postman a lot. We store our collections in git. But we don’t want to store our secrets there. Postman is kind enough to allow users to create environments to hold those secrets. Even with environments, the need to keep secrets secret gives us a configuration problem. Setting up a new environment involves…
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State of Work Survey, October 2020
In the spirit of surveys like the DORA survey or Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey, it’s time for the next round of the State of Work survey. A lot of things have changed since June: kids have gone back to school, sports leagues have gone back to doing sports, offices have re-opened, and people have adapted.…