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SCE to AUX

Posted on November 14, 2019 by michaelgat
DevOps Lessons from Apollo 12. 90 Seconds that defined what it means to do good work under pressure.... Read More

Lightning talks, and not…

Posted on October 23, 2018 by michaelgat
Lightning talks seem scary, but are in fact one of the best ways to introduce yourself to public speaking in general. Once you can do one of these, you can easily relax some of the rules for longer pr... Read More

When “Failure Culture” Fails

Posted on March 23, 2018 by michaelgat
It's a concern that Tesla is not worried about building things right the first time. It's a problem that they already have a rework facility near their factory to repair things that weren't done right... Read More

SCaLE 16x Lightning Talk: “You’re a Failure! Now what?”

Posted on March 12, 2018 by michaelgat
SCaLE is special and this worked well for the crowd there. There's a reason I wanted SCaLE to be the first conference where I gave a talk, and was happy for UpScale to be the first place I tried out a... Read More

Promo for my SCaLE 16x talk

Posted on February 22, 2018 by michaelgat
A promo video for my SCaLE 16x talk. This one features Mr. Spock and Flash the Linux Cat. As noted in my comments, pretty much all you need to know is that I named my cats Floppy and Flash.... Read More

2017 Wrapup: Top Reads

Posted on December 26, 2017 by michaelgat
I've been curating my social media, as I do at the end of every year. By "curating" I mostly mean "deleting annoying rants" but also a whole lot of stuff that was timely when posted but irrelevant a w... Read More

New Zealand Again? Yes.

Posted on September 5, 2017 by michaelgat
Technology and Project Management are universal languages and themes, but they express themselves differently in different environments, different economies and different cultures. Those different exp... Read More

Don’t believe the client

Posted on September 2, 2017 by michaelgat
You have to disbelieve the client. When a mid-sized client tells you "this is the solution, when can we do it?" it's not the same as a large corporate client telling you that they've selected a softwa... Read More

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