Testing Your Backups – Disaster Recovery Requires Verification
There are a few times I have been taught the value of testing your backups. That is why even disaster recovery needs to be validated.... Read more
Category: Grow From Failures
Sweeping Consequences – Avoid All In Until You Are Sure
There is an old joke about sweeping consequences in IT related to wildcard commands like “rm -rf *.” However, there are ways to avoid getting... Read more
A Car Sale – Acceptable Loss And Walking Away
We continue the series about errors and recovering with an excellent example of acceptable loss and when to walk away. We see these appear in... Read more
Key Performance Indicators – Measure Your Spending
This episode looks at a marketing campaign and my lack of paying based on key performance indicators or KPIs. This was a slightly costly mistake... Read more
Ask Questions To Show Knowledge – A Bad Interview
In this episode, our trip down memory lane stops at my first professional interview and when I learned to ask questions. It is thought by... Read more
Acceptable Risk – A Bike Trick Gone Bad
We look at another childhood error and its somewhat humorous result as an example of how to plan for acceptable risk. We often think of... Read more