Talking about the value of immutability ... for deployment platforms and innovation
2013-11-12 Software-Engineering Management Culture Conferences
I am just back from presenting a talk at FutureStack in SFO.
Very interesting trip. Got very positive feedback on what we are doing. Did meet a lot of ... Read More
Gilt CIO talks ... about innovation
2013-09-24 Management Innovation
From an interview with Steve. Too good not to turn it into a blog post ...
"When people talk about innovation they are often talking about the solution ... Read More
Getting GTD done - Thoughts and Tools
2013-08-19 Personal Management Tips & Tricks Thoughts
We all have a lot to do. Effective time/task management is essential. I’ve been using GTD (Getting Things Done) for a while now (a long while :)) and ... Read More
Charting some KPIs ... how hard can it be?
2013-05-10 Software-Engineering Management Culture Nerdy
In the last couple of weeks I was working on an initiative to make all the Gilt Tech KPIs available in one place. There are lots of dashboard ... Read More
Dublin Innovation Festival - Talking about Innovation, Gilt and Ireland ... and Evolution and Darwinism
2011-11-24 Management Innovation Culture
A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to talk about three things I care about: Innovation, Gilt and Ireland. The occasion was the Dublin Chamber of ...Read More
Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose - ... or ... how to unleash creativity.
2010-06-08 Management Culture
This is going to be a short blog post. A Facebook post by Brian Kelly made me revisit the stuff that Dan Pink did and is doing.
The main idea behind ...Read More
Skills, Innovation and the future of Ireland - Bermuda Triangle or Trinity
2009-06-07 Management Personal Culture Innovation
Ireland (like any other country in the world right now) needs to reinvent itself. The Celtic Tiger (1.0) is over. Question is: What's next? Do we want ... Read More
Commercial Open Source for Apache Projects - Survival of the fittest
2009-01-22 Management Open-Source
Just found another company offering commercial support for Apache ServiceMix and Apache ActiveMQ (like we do :)). For me this is good news. It shows ... Read More
Open Source Marketing - and what it got to do with the Michelin brothers
2008-11-11 Management Open-Source
Open Core Licensing and the business model behind it is not (really) new. When you look at it from a history/marketing point of view there are lots of ... Read More
Open Source Business Models - Open-Core Licensing
2008-09-02 Management Open-Source
OH NO, please!!! YABOOSBM!!! Yet another blog entry on open-source business models :).
Ok, let's make it as short and as sweet as possible :).
This ... Read More