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The difference between a Product and a Project ? What is Cynefin ? Several years ago a very smart colleague made a passing comment that “Joe” (named changed for protection of the innocent) didn’t know the difference between Project Management & Product Management. I didn’t either which nagged at me for a year or two until I came across a video by Fred George that mentioned something called Cynefin....

Can you tell your DMARK from your DKIM ? Four years ago I received a mysterious message from our email provider, mandrill. It was advising me that email sending for our startup would be stopped unless I completed DKIM and SPF signatures for our email. Fortunately the email also contained some pretty easy to follow instructions so the issue was closed out pretty quickly. I was curious why we needed two; why DKIM & SPF ?...

When your boss decides to get involved with AI - a mini lesson for managers curious about Machine Learning. Disinfecting those algorithms…. I took a job at a bricks-and-mortars business that told me they wanted “to go digital”. One of the first digital projects I identified was a machine-learning application. Reviews from the public were a big thing for this company and 40-50,000 were read each month by a group of human beings that hated the task....

It all started so well I was employee number three at a Startup with the usual, larger-than-life Founder. He was a man with a vision, a big vision, able to pursuade, cajole and sell his vision to pretty much everyone around him including me. It was a good “tech-for-good” idea and we were all convinced of our mission to make the world a better place by helping the public complain to big companies....