Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. Steve Jobs
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January 1, 2024 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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Highly intelligent people often pontificate about things they know very little about. Tom Holler
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January 1, 2023 Bruce Benson
Training
Good data should be used to guide our understanding and actions in projects, pandemics, and life.
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January 1, 2022 Bruce Benson
Metrics
In any emergency or simply a chaotic situation like the typical software intensive project, I always looked to find data that helped me anchor my understanding of the situation.
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January 1, 2021 Bruce Benson
Metrics
What we do, day to day makes the difference. These are some of the lifehacks I use after six decades of life. A lifehack is a habit or activity that provides significant benefits for a reasonable price.
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December 31, 2019 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Software that used to take minutes to complete a full build now start with fetching from the repository and may require an hour or more to build.
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December 31, 2018 Bruce Benson
Training
The answer to most companies’ developer shortages is likely to look within, and make those developers more productive.
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December 21, 2018 Bruce Benson
Staffing
I just wanted to develop a rocket with a small team, and not 15,000 people like had been done in the past. I wanted to show you could do this with 200.
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December 15, 2018 Bruce Benson
Schedule
We measured all types of individual work environments, and what we’ve found is that if you solve for design, noise, and access to people and resources, they perform equally, and one is essentially not better than the other.
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December 7, 2018 Bruce Benson
Staffing
The system should be able to automatically approve them, freeing up people to focus on the more high-risk changes that do require more in-depth analysis and understanding before they can be approved.
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December 2, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Suddenly, it turns out there are many years of hard work behind Tesla’s overnight success.
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November 24, 2018 Bruce Benson
Innovation
There is no way at this point to stop climate change. Pretty much every system is going to have to change. We're going to have to adapt to this.
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November 17, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
The simple message is almost always just a useful abstraction of a fuller methodology that needs to be understood.
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November 7, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
If you don’t find the solution, it’s because you didn’t see the real problem.
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October 31, 2018 Bruce Benson
Quality
The healthcare industry may be experiencing an ongoing productivity paradox, mirroring earlier patterns in manufacturing and other industrial sectors.
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October 27, 2018 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement