Doug’s Blog

21 May 2008

Don’t Worry, Be Golfing

By |2017-04-03T12:41:35-06:00May 21st, 2008|Categories: Business Strategy, Doug's Blog, Dream Teams|

In my research and contacts with numerous organizations I’ve come across an interesting observation. The people running things and making long-term decisions about how to handle the emerging demographic shift and labour shortages are generally within a few years of retirement themselves.

This only makes sense. After all, the most experienced people in a large organization by definition have been around a while, and they are entitled to retire after many years of service.

If good succession planning is happening, then perhaps it makes sense to turn this issue over to the candidate who is most likely to be filling the […]

20 May 2008

Echo Louder Than the Boom

By |2017-04-03T12:41:39-06:00May 20th, 2008|Categories: Doug's Blog, Dream Teams|

Demographics play a big role in the world. From marketers to city planners everyone is impacted one way or another by the population makeup. Currently, the most significant impact is thought to come from the Baby Boomers (those born between 1947 and 1966), a bulge in the population distribution affecting Canada and the US the most.

"Boom Bust and Echo" (by David Foot, 1996) outlined how this boom was going to affect Canadians in everything from the aging of the population to health care costs.

Sherry Cooper more recently updated the outlook in “The New Retirement” (2008) and talks about how the […]

16 May 2008

TDD Inaction

By |2017-04-03T12:41:42-06:00May 16th, 2008|Categories: Doug's Blog, Software Development, Uncategorized|

Our company is on the path towards adopting full agile development practices. As the senior “manager” this fits into three of my goals:

  • Software excellence
  • Delivering maximum value to clients as soon as possible
  • Sustainable pace

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