Posts
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Matane vs. Sayonara
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Scenario #19: Risky Unions Take
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What does success look like
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Hearding Cats
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Acquiring AI
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Scenario #19: Risky Unions
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Scenario #18: What's in your house - take
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End of the road
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The PE Play
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After day 1
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Scenario #18: What's in your house?
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Scenario #17: Heave Ho - Take
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Pilot Projects
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Impact of new toys
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How do you evaluate new tech?
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Scenario #17: Heave Ho
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Scenario #16: Consistency in data - take
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Recurring jobs
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Where are your exits
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API Contracts and Partnerships
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Scenario #16: Consistency in data
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Scenario #15: How do you coordinate a cutover? - Take
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What's in a name: the one small detail that can derail your cutover
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Strangling the old world
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Blue no wait Green!
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Scenario #15: How do you coordinate a cutover?
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Scenario 14: Lets get synergy! - Take
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A smoother transition?
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Cutting hard
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Cutting over techniques
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Scenario #14: Lets get synergy!
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Scenario #13: Santa's Workshop Take
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The implementation doesn't matter if you don't know where you're going
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When do you bring in external expertise?
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Happy 2025!
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Do you know where you are going?
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Is the TSA termination date the same as Day 1?
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Scenario #13: Santa's Workshop
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Scenario #12: Light Guns - the take
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Now that you know who your users are, then what?
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Who are your users?
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Dealing with SaaS
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Scenario #12: Light Guns
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Scenario #11: Mitigating Risk - take
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Impact of Culture
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Measure twice, cut once
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Cutting Over
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Scenario #11: Mitigating Risk
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Scenario #10: Divesting companies is like divesting kids: the take
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Planning inside containers
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What small detail did you miss?
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When does day 0 become day 1
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Scenario #10: Divesting companies is like divesting kids
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Scenario #9: Flying International: the take and bonus
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Giving thanks: We have archives!
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Capturing Turkeys
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Known Limitations
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Scenario #9: Flying International
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Scenario #8: Emergency Checklists - the take
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Integrating the integration
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The turnaround
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Vendor retirements
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Scenario #8: Emergency Checklists
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Scenario #7: Pre-existing initiatives: The take
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Fighting for resources
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Same SaaS, Different Day
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This is just an implementation detail
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Scenario #7: Pre-existing initiatives
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Scenario #6: Who're you gonna call: the take
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Scenario #5: Moving Sale: The forth take
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Scenario #5: Moving Sale: The third take
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Scenario #5: Moving Sale: The second take
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Scenario #6: Who're you gonna call!
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Scenario #5: Moving Sale: the take
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The differences between a CTO and CIO
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The other kind of debt
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Definition of Done
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Scenario #5: Moving Sale
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Scenario #4: Divesting Anvils: The take
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Divesting business units
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Sharing is Caring
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DaaS: Divesting as a Service
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Scenario #4: Divesting Anvils
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Scenario #3: Gimme the data! (the take)
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What is a TSA?
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How does your address book magically stay in sync?
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What can an address book tell us about data?
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Scenario #3: Gimmie the data!
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Scenario #2: Time to scale up: the take
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The Aftermath
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The crib sheet
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PE/VC types: does it matter?
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Scenario #2: Time to scale up
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Scenario #1: The Small Startup: the take
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Looking at interfaces or when investigating your interfaces can save you months of rework
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Licensing part 2: the inheritance
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Tech Diligence: Open Source Development vs. Usage
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Scenario #1: The Small Startup
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Are we agile?
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The Cost vs Quality
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What does success look like? Maybe a color wheel
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The Tech Diligence Master List of Questions
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Fleshing out the initial list
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The contents of a business
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What parts drive your business?
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What's in your business?
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The Checklists
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Combining the integration knowledge
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Integrating people with the apps
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Tech Diligence: Integrating Infrastructure Maturity
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The CIO Integration Guide: Integrating Apps
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How to integrate an acquired company's custom app?
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Strangling the tech
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What's in a license?
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Where does the wind blow
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Risks in vendors
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Personal Tactical Integrations
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Integrating paper
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The Address Book
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Goals continued
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Your goals
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Do I need to hire a plumber?
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What other pre-diligence work can be done?
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The pre-pre-announce self-assessment
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The Three Phases
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The Beginning
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