Random Thoughts on Moving

Or, “You can’t deduplicate your house but when you move you wish to hell you could”. Building a house is…

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Dark Patterns and Creepy User Experiences

In User Experience, a dark pattern refers to a UX workflow that effectively urges the user to either perform an…

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Book Giveaway Competition Winners

In December/January I ran a competition to give away some copies of my latest book, The Busy IT Manager’s Guide…

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19.15 Hits the Ground Running

PowerProtect Data Manager 19.15 is available, and in this blog I’ll give you a rundown of the new features. Agents…

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Two Years a Product Manager

or, The Stoic’s Guide to Product Management (…and a book giveaway at the end…) I’m coming up to two years…

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Book Giveaway: The Busy IT Manager’s Guide to Data Recovery

Well, it had to happen eventually! Normally when my publisher sends me complimentary copies of my books, they arrive a…

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Nagifications as a Lesson in User Experience

One of the things I’ve learned as a product manager – particularly given a lot of my focus is on…

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Coming Soon: A book about recovery for busy people

In June I decided to start tallying how many meetings I do. In this, I should preface that I only…

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Working in the Hour of the Wolf

Introduction Whether you call it the hour of the wolf or the witching hour, that time between midnight and dawn…

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Working with Restore Plans

Restore Plans were introduced in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.14. Restore Plans are simple, yet offer a great deal of power…

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