James LaPlaine

Addressing Technology Misconceptions: TBM Part 3

Mental Effort Archive

Addressing Technology Misconceptions: TBM Part 3

As a technologist you have experience and knowledge that business leaders in other areas won't. What you perceive when merging your observations with this knowledge may be vastly different than the perceptions that others form about your work.

Moving IT from Cost to Value: TBM Part 2

Technology Business Management

Moving IT from Cost to Value: TBM Part 2

Over time, continuous cutting of IT budgets will cause the misconceptions about IT to become realities.

IT is a Strategic Weapon: TBM Part 1

Mental Effort Archive

IT is a Strategic Weapon: TBM Part 1

Technology leaders must be willing to tackle a broad set of work in culture, language, transparency, technology trends, operational blocking and tackling, and present a vision. Failure to address each of these categories puts their company at risk.

The Unassisted Triple Play

The Unassisted Triple Play

Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance were the most famous double-play trio in baseball history. They succeeded by being well prepared, aware of the game's situation, and lucky.

Mental Effort Archive

Be a "Student Of The Game"

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it". Maybe those kind of people are the opposites of the "student of the game". Don't fall into the same pitfalls that others have encountered and solved.

Technical Debt - Part 3 - Data Center Strategy, DTC For Sale

Back in the expansion of AOL's dial-up business in the

A day with TEALS kids

AOL's Dulles, VA campus hosted a field trip on May

January 2013 Innovation Talk

Humans have long demonstrated a capacity for creativity and innovation that have had monumental effects on the world. To have these types of impacts takes many trials and errors, a high level of courage, and a willingness to sometimes stand alone with a new idea.

Technical Debt - Part 2 - Making the monthly payments

Back in March 2012 I wrote an article [https://stay-curious.ghost.io/

Technical Debt - Part 1 - Stop accumulating debt

Much of the material I found when searching for "technical debt&

Fishing for caveats, making goals

Every year as the calendars roll toward January, we start to talk