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A Nice Knock-Down Argument

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ April 20, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Sales and the Gantt “Why exactly does he want to meet again?” I could sense the exasperation in Karl’s voice, faintly; the sales manager wasn’t about to slip out of his professional demeanor over some perceived technical triviality. But for the fact that the request was coming from his newly-hired PMI maven, he probably would [...]

Designing for Devices

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ October 10, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

My last entry on design for a bit – just some thoughts on the added complexity when designing applications for multiple client devices. Fast Changing Device Landscape The “last mile” of user/computer interaction has seen a number of exciting innovations over the past year or so. Phones are getting physically smaller, yet have bulked up [...]

Notes from SAPPHIRE 09

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ May 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Yesterday at work was “catch-up day” from a week at SAPPHIRE 2009, the annual user conference for SAP. As with the JDA/Manugistics conference earlier this year, there were concerns that attendance was going to be low, because so many companies are limiting travel expense. At the conference, I did hear that attendance was only was [...]

A Plea for Empathetic Communication

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ November 17, 2008 ⋅ One comment

It’s impossible to over-communicate Sounds a bit strong, but if you think through your real-world experiences, this shouldn’t surprise anyone. No matter how hard you try, your message will be missed by someone … Problem: It’s all their fault! Rely on Web 2.0, and … … they won’t subscribe to the RSS feed; they don’t [...]

On the Road: Business Travel, Fall 2008

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ October 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I don’t travel a significant amount in my current position, but when I do, it seems to come in chunks. I’m about half way through a round of travel this fall – mostly business, but with some personal travel mixed in. Six cities, three countries in less than four months. Some observations at the halfway [...]

Power Outage Follow Up – Observations

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ March 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

A couple of hours after my

Thoughts During a Power Outage

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ March 27, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I am sitting in the cube outside my office, connected by wireless to our corporate network in an otherwise darkened office. The power is out – started around 3AM, and it is apparently affecting a large area, not just this building. Kudos to the infrastructure team that strung up the wireless access points here – [...]

IMAP Gmail Reinforcing the Drive to Web-based Productivity Applications

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ November 3, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve noted in the past that I’m trying to move to browser-based productivity tools, and Google’s recent announcement in support of IMAP access for Gmail just gave me a little shove. Historically I’m a POP3 kind of guy, preferring to download all messages from my “external” e-mail accounts to my hard drive. In retrospect, this [...]

Rare event: Design problems with my Blackberry Pearl

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ May 24, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve finally found a design issue or two with the Blackberry Pearl. That’s an accomplishment of a sort – I’ve written about how I like this thing, it’s been quite handy. However, today I was calling for technical support for something (not the Blackberry …), and I was prompted by an Automated Voice Response (AVR) [...]

My first month with the Blackberry Pearl

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ February 27, 2007 ⋅ One comment

(thanks to Dave Taylor for the post idea) I’m just finishing up my first month with my second Blackberry; well, actually my third, but the first two were the same type, the classic 7200 series. I appreciated the access to email, calendar, and contact information, but I didn’t like the way the integrated cell phone [...]

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