Bruce P. Henry
Blog Posts
Organizational Change is like Sausage
--Eric D. Brown wrote a short post on his leadership organizational change blog. While I understand the sentiment, I don’t really draw the same concl...
Building Organizations without Managers
--Today I'm posting a guest post from Jon Poland. I met Jon at the first BarCampSeattle where I was one of the organizers. Jon has spent quite some ...
How to: Disable Windows Update Restart
--Okay, I normally don't do tech how to posts simply because they're usually already posted and easy to find. This however took me awhile and it is ...
How to: Disable Windows Update Restart
--Okay, I normally don't do tech how to posts simply because they're usually already posted and easy to find. This however took me awhile and it is ...
Facebook and the Failure of Targeted Advertising
--On the way up to Bellingham to present to the Bellingham Angel Group (who I must note were really well organized and friendly to boot) Mike Crill o...
Facebook and the Failure of Targeted Advertising
--On the way up to Bellingham to present to the Bellingham Angel Group (who I must note were really well organized and friendly to boot) Mike Crill o...
Web 2.0 and Business Douche Bags
--At Seattle Startup Drinks last night an interesting rant happened to fall out of my mouth. What happened was that Colin Henry (no biological relat...
Web 2.0 and Business Douche Bags
--At Seattle Startup Drinks last night an interesting rant happened to fall out of my mouth. What happened was that Colin Henry (no biological relat...
Tale of Two Blogs
--I know all kinds of folks out there have talked about this, but I wanna add my two cents and it's my blog so...It is friggin' hard to have both a c...
Tale of Two Blogs
--I know all kinds of folks out there have talked about this, but I wanna add my two cents and it's my blog so...It is friggin' hard to have both a c...
Illustrating the Point about Futility
--So two folks (John & Ray) left comments on my time tracking post. Normally I'd have spammed those comments as they're really just shameless plu...
Illustrating the Point about Futility
--So two folks (John & Ray) left comments on my time tracking post. Normally I'd have spammed those comments as they're really just shameless plu...
Lack of Motivation for Time Tracking
--While waiting in the airport to head back to Seattle from SXSW (SXSWi was awesome BTW) I got to thinking about why it is so hard to get good data o...
Lack of Motivation for Time Tracking
--While waiting in the airport to head back to Seattle from SXSW (SXSWi was awesome BTW) I got to thinking about why it is so hard to get good data o...
Lack of Motivation for Time Tracking
--While waiting in the airport to head back to Seattle from SXSW (SXSWi was awesome BTW) I got to thinking about why it is so hard to get good data o...
Mmm... Donuts
--Amy Hoy has a great little blog called Slash7. I highly recommend it. She recently reposted an old article "The Ape and the Donut Eater" about in...
Mmm... Donuts
--Amy Hoy has a great little blog called Slash7. I highly recommend it. She recently reposted an old article "The Ape and the Donut Eater" about in...
We're going to DEMO!
--So it is now somewhat public that LiquidPlanner has been chosen to debut at the DEMO conference! See, it says so right here on our home page. Thi...
We're going to DEMO!
--So it is now somewhat public that LiquidPlanner has been chosen to debut at the DEMO conference! See, it says so right here on our home page. Thi...
Convention & Configuration
--When I took the (very good) Pragmatic Studio Rails training course almost a year ago there was an interesting approach to configuration that Dave T...
Convention & Configuration
--When I took the (very good) Pragmatic Studio Rails training course almost a year ago there was an interesting approach to configuration that Dave T...
Breaking Down a Project: How Much Detail?
--The Undocumented Features blog is exactly right that we should be aiming at a detail of tasks that are around 1 day in duration when beginning deve...
Breaking Down a Project: How Much Detail?
--The Undocumented Features blog is exactly right that we should be aiming at a detail of tasks that are around 1 day in duration when beginning deve...
Multi-Tasking is Killing Your Business
--I read a couple of articles recently and can now distill the vague feeling that I've always had that multi-tasking is not a good thing down to a si...
Multi-Tasking is Killing Your Business
--I read a couple of articles recently and can now distill the vague feeling that I've always had that multi-tasking is not a good thing down to a si...
Statistical Frustration
--Okay... I must be getting old.Anytime you find yourself saying things like, "Friggen kids these days know nothing about statistics", you pretty mu...
Statistical Frustration
--Okay... I must be getting old.Anytime you find yourself saying things like, "Friggen kids these days know nothing about statistics", you pretty mu...
Last Work Day of Summer
--The end of summer always makes me feel a little down. When I was a kid it always seemed like summer would go on forever. They get shorter and sho...
Last Work Day of Summer
--The end of summer always makes me feel a little down. When I was a kid it always seemed like summer would go on forever. They get shorter and sho...
Hi {SalesWeenie.FirstName}...
--Nice title! Feels real personalized.Yeah almost as personalized as this knee slapper from SalesForce.com:Hi {Lead.FirstName},Salesforce.com is abo...
Hi {SalesWeenie.FirstName}...
--Nice title! Feels real personalized.Yeah almost as personalized as this knee slapper from SalesForce.com:Hi {Lead.FirstName},Salesforce.com is abo...
Quick Notes from Ignite Seattle
--So tonight I went to tonight's Ignite Seattle event.Dude! I mean DUDE!The talk format is 5 minutes with automagic 15 second slide changes. The ta...
Quick Notes from Ignite Seattle
--So tonight I went to tonight's Ignite Seattle event.Dude! I mean DUDE!The talk format is 5 minutes with automagic 15 second slide changes. The ta...
Busy, Busy, Busy
--Holy crap I've been busy!It's been like two months since I last posted and all kinds of stuff has been going on.First off, it's getting really exci...
Busy, Busy, Busy
--Holy crap I've been busy!It's been like two months since I last posted and all kinds of stuff has been going on.First off, it's getting really exci...
Writing can save your teeth!
--I was going on a writing-fest today. This was only half intentional. Here's what happened...I was going to a whole friggen big list of sites to s...
Writing can save your teeth!
--I was going on a writing-fest today. This was only half intentional. Here's what happened...I was going to a whole friggen big list of sites to s...
The Joy of Patent Work
--I've been trying to get the patent applications in order for the stuff we've been working on at Team46 for the past couple of months. Oh the joy o...
The Joy of Patent Work
--I've been trying to get the patent applications in order for the stuff we've been working on at Team46 for the past couple of months. Oh the joy o...
To bug or not to bug
--That is the question.I used to be a software tester. In a way that's like saying, "I used to be an alcoholic." Just because you've moved on does...
To bug or not to bug
--That is the question.I used to be a software tester. In a way that's like saying, "I used to be an alcoholic." Just because you've moved on does...
Essential Interface Complexity
--After reading a very interesting and insightful post on the Subtraction Blog I got to thinking about what it means for an interface to be "as simpl...
Essential Interface Complexity
--After reading a very interesting and insightful post on the Subtraction Blog I got to thinking about what it means for an interface to be "as simpl...
Organizational Breathing
--So, I find myself sitting in my office watching the sun set over Seattle and thinking about organizations and how they change over time. It's inter...
Organizational Breathing
--So, I find myself sitting in my office watching the sun set over Seattle and thinking about organizations and how they change over time. It's inter...
Reorganization Addiction
--Is your organization addicted to reorganization?Do you re-org about once a year?Do you do it with the intention that it will solve all kinds of pro...
Reorganization Addiction
--Is your organization addicted to reorganization?Do you re-org about once a year?Do you do it with the intention that it will solve all kinds of pro...
One thing right about agile development
--So, normally I'm fully in the camp of planning out your work and then reviewing the plans for flaws, iterating on the plans until satisfied, and on...
One thing right about agile development
--So, normally I'm fully in the camp of planning out your work and then reviewing the plans for flaws, iterating on the plans until satisfied, and on...
My Principles
--I've had a couple of requests for a listing of principles that I try to keep in mind whenever I'm dealing with software development. Now understan...
Why Principles Matter in Software Development
--Principles? We don't need no stinkin' Principles!Over the years that I have been working with software I have noticed a couple of things about prin...
