Lean by Design

Apple and the God of technology marketing himself – Steve Jobs – announced the iPad product today with their usual hoopla.   The rock style event, complete with applause and standing ovations can be seen here. I am embarrassed to admit that I searched out the announcement on the web and worse still, I don’t [...]

The initial focus of this Blog when I first began writing it, was on the Telecom industry and how Web 2.0 technologies were changing the nature of this industry.   That was back in 2006.    Well, as usual, we underestimated the time changes require. Alec Saunders penned a piece today on the changing face [...]

Early in my career I was involved in the development of a toolset that represented one of the pioneering attempts at Model Driven Development.   The toolsuite, that became known as ObjecTime, was the brainchild of a group in Bell-Northern Research and was lead by a dynamic and passionate engineer, and friend of mine – [...]

Over the past few months I have been slowly brewing the elements of a new tech business with a few former colleagues and acquaintances, and have been surprised and frustrated by my slow progress.   I appreciate that the most difficult part of getting a new company going can be the formative early stages, when [...]