Project Management and Google

When I was with Tandem Computers we had a picture of a plane, serving as discouragement and a boost to be better at the same time.

It showed me the state of affairs at most customer's IT infrastructure and helped me establish a bottom-up design process which ensured a solid platform allowing the flexible addition of features as a market developed without having to re-design everything and having to create interfaces as patches.

It's become a fundamental part of me, helping to keep me focused on what I want to achieve and what I want to avoid.