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📅 July 5, 2022

Clearly Defined Objectives – It Is A Mistake To Not Ask Questions

This episode of learning from mistakes focuses on clearly defined objectives. The error highlights what can go wrong when we fail to have them. We also see these same potential issues pop up when we have weakly defined requirements. Finally,…

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📅 June 30, 2022

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. The first story I share is probably a worst-case scenario. However, it can happen, so…

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📅 June 28, 2022

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 bit by them. For example, we can do test runs and subset queries before doing…

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📅 June 23, 2022

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 negotiations regularly. They are shown in movies, television shows, and in real life. We walk…

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📅 June 21, 2022

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 and, thus, one that sticks in my memory. The mistakes that cause us some level…

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📅 June 16, 2022

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 many that those that know never ask. However, that is far from the truth. There…

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