Funding a Business at Mid-Life

In the book, it seemed that you stayed away from discussing just the VC funding type which in software seems so prevalent and is that directly related to that midlife entrepreneur that he has assets and everything? I asked that question of Bill Seagraves, author of Be Your Best Boss: Reinvent Yourself from Employee to Entrepreneur. Read More …

Bustamante on Agile Communities, 2 of 2

An activist in the Agile Communities, Alan Bustamante plays a leadership role within Agile Cincinnati; as well as, speaking at conferences and professional groups across the planet. Xcelerate Partners is a technology consulting firm focused on helping organizations rapidly deliver high-quality software products using agile development techniques. They provide agile training, coaching and delivery services to business of all Read More …

My First Lean Project Lost $1,000,000

I take it you were a construction project manager type of person first; I assume? I guess what drove the need to use Lean in construction and your planning discipline because you were pretty early. In 2001, there wasn’t a whole lot of people doing Lean Construction yet. I asked this question of Dave MacNeel Read More …

Bustamante on Agile Communities, 1 of 2

An activist in the Agile Communities, Alan Bustamante plays a leadership role within Agile Cincinnati; as well as, speaking at conferences and professional groups across the planet. Xcelerate Partners is a technology consulting firm focused on helping organizations rapidly deliver high-quality software products using agile development techniques. They provide agile training, coaching and delivery services to business of all Read More …

Every Manager should have a Philosophy

Examples of Aristotle and Plato at how you actually view the world. Is the world knowable and understandable and you can perform experiments to figure out what’s the right thing to do? Or, is it this strange amorphous thing that changes around? Those basic views and everyone has a philosophy. Those basic views shape how Read More …

Bryan Armentrout: The New Manager Mindset

Bryan Armentrout is a Corporate Entrepreneur and thought leader in the quality assurance/ risk management space. Bryan is the owner of The Food Leadership Group, a food safety and quality systems consulting firm. He has written a new book called The New Manager Mindset: How to Master the Four Secrets of Leadership that College Doesn’t Read More …