A few years ago, I asked an experienced, technically-savvy friend to look at the product that we were building and objectively let me know his thoughts.  He quickly pointed out that while he was initially impressed with the array of features and power,[…]

My twitter profile currently includes that I am “passionate about #BigData”.  Recently, someone spammed me with a direct message “What is the big whoop about #BigData”?  Typically, I dismiss DM spam but my brain kept whispering “This is a c-suite challenge”. Today, cutting[…]

With all the recent news on government data collection, information flow, etc… I’ve been thinking about the issues of business transparency.  All too often, when risks are the primary focus of management’s attention, I suspect that many executives feel that the best policy[…]

Yikes, a very long time has passed since my last post, I guess this is what happens when you start a company. Nearly every train ride I think, I should write something because I enjoyed doing this last year. It also got me[…]

Product Management is one of the most important disciplines in a technology company, certainly a top priority for both startup and scale.

I simply must enter through the gates of hell and get some testing done – no way around it. Load testing through reduction – no data movement, data cleansing, backups or load generation needed. Know thy products performance and scalability.

Quickly boiling down a complicated issue to simplify decisions – ask the “Easy hard, hard easy” question.

No battle was ever won without a plan, and no battle ever went according to plan