The typical ladder has nice, evenly spaced rungs to get you from the ground to whatever high spot you have your sights set on. But what happens when the top rungs are missing? You can get part way up, but can’t go very high. Or what if all of the bottom rungs are missing? It’s …
I believe that Women’s International Day has special significance this year. With the heightened political atmosphere charged with undertones of misogyny, the Women’s March shining a light on women’s rights and voice, and high profile news stories about sexual harassment, it just seems like Women’s International Day should be particularly meaningful and hopefully memorable in …
Last month was a seminal moment for us – we launched our next-generation software integration product, Tasktop. As ever, the product development journey was one hell of a ride. Three years. 500,000 lines of code. 20,000 automated tests. 5,000 wiki pages. Hundreds of design sessions. Many mistakes. Some tears. A few moments of deep soul …
For too long, software lifecycle integration has been viewed as the red-headed stepchild at organizations – an unglamorous chore that is often considered a developer issue and a developer issue alone. That perception must change – it’s actually a critical organizational issue and this misconception is why Tasktop is leading the charge in rebranding integration. …
This was a week of extremes for me. Seven customer visits in a whirlwind trip to Europe. It was exhilarating, as every one of them was impressed with how Tasktop is innovating. But there was something missing. Women. There was not a single woman in any of the meetings I attended. Disheartening. Then, my 10-year …
Last week I received an email from my daughter’s school asking if I would volunteer to help with math enrichment. Math enrichment, a program run by parent volunteers, provides extra instruction to 4th grade kids who are deemed to have a significant aptitude for math. When I arrived at the school, I realized that out …
It was quite a sobering moment when the fact dawned on me. We were doing our fiscal year strategic planning and going through each department discussing priorities. Seems simple enough. But what happened next stopped me in my tracks. Mik, our CEO, said, OK – lets work on the metrics well use to measure your …