Phil Simon
Help me figure out the right handful of words to help me describe the third edition of my first book.
Posts Tagged as: Why New Systems Fail
Posts Tagged as: Why New Systems Fail
Simon’s Laws of Interorganizational Communication and Collaboration
Project charters are meaningless unless people, you know, actually follow them. Sadly, this isn’t always the case.
Why I Don’t Offer Turnkey Consulting Arrangements
Foolish is the soul who believes that successful change management involves a cookie-cutter approach.
Thoughts on the Hertz Debacle
$32M doesn’t get you what you think when you hire large consulting firms.
Visualizing My Teaching Schedule
Sometimes Gantt charts actually make sense.
Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Publication of Why New Systems Fail
A decade ago, my first book hit the shelves.
Why All College Students Need to Know the Basics of Coding
Even finance, accounting, and marketing majors should understand what makes software tick.
Reflections on Carnegie Mellon 25 Years Later
Thoughts on the most important skills and abilities that I picked up at CMU.
Reflections on Supervising More Than 100 Capstone Projects
Thoughts on some of my students’ best work.
Chemonics Receives Innovation Award
Recognition for good work never gets old.
Thoughts on Teaching Older Students
What do when someone possesses a great deal of professional experience.
Three Main Types of Capstone Project Problems
Thoughts on some common issues and what to do about them.
Reflections on 2017
Thoughts on an enormously turbulent year.
The Case for DevOps
A look at an increasingly common way of “doing IT.”
Why Analytics Today Are More Democratic
It’s no longer 1995.
Announcing My Eighth Book
Here’s the skinny on my new one, Analytics: The Agile Way.