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Rework Reminder (Kill your BDUF, Code Smells, Anitpatterns, Etc ASAP!)

Rework Reminder (Kill your BDUF, Code Smells, Anitpatterns, Etc ASAP!)

By Adron Hall on January 20, 2011

Rework is ok.  Refactoring is ok.  BDUF (Big Design Up Front) is bad.  Minimal amount to get to market is good.  Getting to market is good.  Don’t get into analysis paralysis. Best book that cleanly cuts to the chase I’ve read in a long while:  Rework …and a few friendly reminder videos. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlw0aLp14Us httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3imeeLHiA httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJFTC9C_IBk […]

Posted in Business | Tagged rants, reviews, software projects, video | 1 Response

Windows Azure SDK Unit Testing Dilemma — F5DD Plz K Thx Bye

Windows Azure SDK Unit Testing Dilemma — F5DD Plz K Thx Bye

By Adron Hall on January 19, 2011

I’m a huge advocate for high quality code. I will admit I don’t always get to write, or am always able to write high quality code. But day in and out I make my best effort at figuring out the best way to write solid, high quality, easy to maintain, easy to read code. Over […]

Posted in General | Tagged azure, bdd, behavior driven development, F5DD, rants, rest web services, restful, Software Development, tdd, test driven development, unit test, unit testing, web services, windows azure

Improving the Time Suck of Social Media

Improving the Time Suck of Social Media

By Adron Hall on December 29, 2010

Social media, albeit being a great boon in many regards, has also become a massive time suck for almost everyone involved!  Sure, news is up to date, down the minute, real-time almost with every single little bit of craziness right there to read about right now!  The t0-read, to-do, to-make, to-code lists all keep getting […]

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged facebook, My Updates, rants, social media, Social network, Social Space, time tracking, twitter

Focusing on What Really Matters

Focusing on What Really Matters

By Jacob Morgan on September 13, 2010

picture taken from a recent trip to Tibet (around 4500 meters high) If you’ve been reading this blog a while (thank you if you have, if not…welcome!) you know that I’ve spent a lot of time talking about topics such as social media, social crm, enterprise 2.0, etc. But every now and then I like […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged happy life, life, life philosophy, living right, living well, rants, time, work, work life balance

Is Enterprise 2.0 Just A Toy?

Is Enterprise 2.0 Just A Toy?

By Chris Yeh on June 17, 2010

One of the things that bugs me about the current state of E2.0 is that even its advocates don’t seem to take it seriously. I just had a fantastic time at the E2.0 conference in Boston, but I noticed some worrying trends. I offer my thoughts in the spirit of tough love and constructive criticism, […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged e2conf, enterprise 2.0, rants | 2 Responses

American Airlines Hates Its Customers!

American Airlines Hates Its Customers!

By Jacob Morgan on April 20, 2010

I really wasn’t going to write this post but on the advice of some colleagues and friends in the industry, I decided to go ahead and share my experiences with American Airlines.  Here’s my story: Last week I booked a last minute ticket to Hawaii; the flight departed Thursday and I booked it Wednesday evening.  […]

Posted in General | Tagged airline social crm, airlines travel, american airlines, continental airlines, flying on american airlines, hates customers, rants, scrm, Social CRM, travel horror stories, travel nightmare, united airlines | 6 Responses

Candid Interview with Brian Solis, Author of Engage

Candid Interview with Brian Solis, Author of Engage

By Jacob Morgan on April 19, 2010

I had the opportunity to speak with and interview Brian Solis (who I’m sure many of you know) about his new book, Engage (Brian also wrote the forward for my book, Twittfaced).  I didn’t want to ask the same boring questions that everyone else usually asks, so instead I decided to ask Brian some “serious” […]

Posted in General | Tagged author interview, brian solis, engage, leadership, rants

Update on My Starting With a Virtual Assistant

Update on My Starting With a Virtual Assistant

By Jacob Morgan on February 18, 2010

A few weeks ago I wrote that I was starting off with a virtual assistant .  I’ve received many questions from all of you so I thought I’d give you an update on how things are going.  It’s been around 2 weeks since I have bee working with my new VA (his name is DJ) […]

Posted in General | Tagged executive assistant, rants, transform solutions, va, virtual assistant, working with a virtual assistant | 1 Response

Introducing Social Business One

Introducing Social Business One

By Jacob Morgan on February 3, 2010

Towards the end of last year I was approached by Bob Thompson from Customer Think and Axel Schultze from the Social Media Academy to be a part of a new type of community that just debuted a few days ago called SocialBusinessOne.  SBO was designed to be a home for everything from Enterprise 2.0 to […]

Posted in General | Tagged founders council, rants, sbo, social business one, socialbusinessone, Tech news

Starting with a Virtual Assistant

Starting with a Virtual Assistant

By Jacob Morgan on February 1, 2010

Starting this week I’m going to be experimenting with a virtual assistant to help me and Chess Media Group get tasks done.  Over the past few months I’ve spent far too much time on tasks that can easily be delegated to someone else such as email, basic research, information gathering, and document creation.  I’ll admit […]

Posted in Small business | Tagged executive assistant, productivity, rants, transform solutions, va, virtual assistant | 2 Responses

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