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The BestBuy.com Story
I revamped the blog and moved the Best Buy story to its own page linked here.
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The Chief Architect’s Purpose
A few years ago I was attending the O’Reilly Software Architecture conference in London where I had prepared a talk on Target’s new vision for the future, a Target Retail Platform. After the conference I had a couple days of vacation and I stopped by an art exhibit at the Saatchi Gallery on Alexander Calder.…
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The Simple Formula to IT Modernization
Having instigated and led through the digital transformation of BestBuy.com, and then moving to Target where we have been completely modernizing IT across the entire company, I’ve learned the simple formula to IT success. While the formula is simple, the execution is what is inherently difficult. In my first year at Best Buy, I spent…
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WFH Chronicles – 2020 May – agile manifesto revisIted
A number of things have reminded me of Agile lately. The new HBR article on The Agile C-Suite only emphasizes that the little agile cults we formed in the early 2000s to build software was the right direction. As one of the executives interviewed for the study, it’s great to see agile evolving to managing…
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WFH Chronicles – 2020 – April
Taking an intern out to lunch in 2020 suddenly became much harder to do, luckily, I already got it done prior to the WFH shift. After a month now of WFH, it’s official, I can’t love it. I don’t think anyone would classify me as outgoing and gregarious, but I do like the separation of…
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Take an Intern out to Lunch in 2020
Twenty odd years ago as I worked at my first couple jobs, people with much more experience in the workplace spent a bit of time and money and took me out to lunch. I was reminded of this when I took out a Target intern for lunch and it brought back these memories. Here are…
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