I was recently in a review with a team that was asking for additional resources. I strongly agreed that this team needed more resources but when I listened the case they made, I was not convinced...
https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2017/06/23/resource-allocation-race-or-rate/
A lot of people want to talk with Microsoft with the hopes of establishing a business relationship. Most of these engagements go nowhere because people don’t know how to have that conversation....
https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2014/11/06/working-with-microsoft/
Today I delivered a talk Desired State Configuration and the Cloud at DevOps Days Amsterdam. The slides are HERE. Enjoy!
Problems, like the poor, are with us always. The trick is what to do about them. I recently told my boss about a previous job where someone had resigned and during the exit interview, they ci...
https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2013/12/19/identifying-problems/
I’ve been meaning to update this for a while. The advice in this post is no longer current. A while ago we changed the implementation of Write-Host to being a wrapper on top of Write-In...
https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2013/12/07/write-host-considered-harmful/
In my previous post Evolution of a Script, Timing Operations, I used the technique of putting “__” in front of variable names to avoid namespace collision. Niklas Bergius left a comment sa...
https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2013/03/17/variable-scopes-and-private/
I just love PowerShell! One of the things I love the most about it is that you can pick the level of programming you want, write a script and then evolve it to meet whatever need you have. So...
https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2013/03/16/evolution-of-a-script-timing-operations/
Technology heroes are always difficult subject. As an engineering manager, I remember the first time I participated in a “life boat” drill where you have to produce a stack rank of your eng...
Years ago I enjoyed reading the book, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. I got a lot of out of it but it had a small signal-to-noise ratio. I’ll save you a few bucks and a...
This week I read the story about how Iran hacked and captured one of our most sophisticated military drones. It struck me that this was an excellent example of the potentially disastrous ramifica...
https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2011/12/18/iranian-drone-hack-and-technical-debt/