what to automate
I have been in the world of automation for quite a while. Specifically in the realms of server, datacenter, and cloud automation – but I’ve been interested and/or involved in other tasks that tend...
View Article7 things employees wish they could tell their boss about salaries
LinkedIn had an interesting article Friday whose title I snagged for this blog post. The 7 items are: We don’t care about pay scales Forget policies. We talk. We think about our pay a lot. We will...
View Articletraveling consultant cheat sheet
“Join the Navy and See the World!”* Perhaps one of the most famous recruitment phrases ever established in the United States. And it’s not at all dissimilar form what a lot of budding consultants think...
View Articlei’m not technical
I am. But not really. To paraphrase my prelicensing class instructor, “95% of consulting is not technical work – is psychological”. 5% of consulting is delivery. The remainder is listening,...
View Articlemeetings
The author of a recent Medium post is so close to right, it’s scary. Gary says the best thing you can do is to cut your meeting length in half. And that is a phenomenal step. One that needs to happen....
View Articleon entropy, password/passphrase complexity, and if you’ve been part of a data...
I wrote an article on passwords, passphrases, entropy, and data breaches for my employer’s blog: https://augustschell.com/passwords-passphrases-complexity-length-crackability-memorability-data-breaches
View Articlebut, i got them on sale!
Back in August 2008, I had a one-week “quick start” professional services engagement in Nutley New Jersey. It was a supposed to be a super simple week: install HP Server Automation at BT Global....
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they asked the right question
Let me compare the experience I wrote about yesterday to another I had the same year with the first customer I was ever sent to – HSBC. Just a couple weeks after starting with ProServe in 2008, I was...
View Articlea lot of travel
Over the past month, and through the end of March, I’ve done, and will be doing, a lot of travel for work. Nothing I haven’t done before, but it’s been a long time since I’ve had to be onsite for more...
View Articlefinally starting to get some good docs amassed
I had a decent library of documentation, templates, hand-offs, slide decks, etc in my pre-Splunk consulting life (technically, I still have them). It’s nice to be finally getting a decent collection to...
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