Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

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So I was in an Agile and Scrum Management class yesterday.  Always looking for new best practices and efficiencies for what we are doi...

So it's a funny thing about decisions... Decisions are supposed to represent the conclusion of a process involving the following ste...

So I was teaching a class in Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance this week.  In one of the class exercises, one of the students pr...

This was sort of a funny scene in a project meeting.  One person describing the challenges at one point, spontaneously and dramatically m...

Managing IT projects is no easy task. You've got to get the requirements right.  Technical issues need to be resolved.  Dependen...

Really liked this sign on my colleague's desk. It says: Start With Yes I remember an old boss who used to say: Don't make ...

Really liked this robot (Cubebot) in the store. Love the colors and that you can change the pose in all different ways.  This robot is...

So Agile development is great for iteratively working closely with customers to develop and refine information systems that are useful t...

Just wanted to share this best practice for Kanban or Visual Task Boards This is a way to layout work/workflow and track and communica...

A colleague gave a wonderful talk the other day on process engineering. The key steps to reduce waste (Lean) or variation/defects (Six S...

So, unfortunately, our education system in this country is highly troubled Generally, we teach by strict curriculum forcing children t...

So in multiple organizations, I have heard systems referred to as ugly babies! Whether or not it's true, it certainly doesn't mak...

This was a funny Dilbert on Requirements Management.  In IT, we all know that getting requirements can be like pulling teeth.  No one ei...

I was so excited by this photo in the Wall Street Journal today. YuMi, an industrial robot by ABB, is adroitly writing Chinese calligra...

So something that I've learned is that processes can be an enabler or a hinderance to progress depending on how it's used. On on...

Exciting video by  Futurism  on what drones can and will do.  Swarming. Wall landings. Acrobatics. Drone on drone landings. Playing ca...

I really like the concept for Cyber Security by Shape Security . They have an appliance called a ShapeShifter that uses polymorphism to c...

So excited about the Army's experimental Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS).  This is really our fast, strong, and agile fi...

This robot has rhythm and can dance Gangnam Style. It is called CHARLI-2 (Cognitive Humanoid Autonomous Robot with Learning Intelligence...