About two years ago, I started looking at progress in my career, the landscape of technology, and the rate of change in both. In some consulting models, generalization is valued over specialization. As I looked at the flat curve of my career progress against the sharp curve of technological change, it didn’t take long to plot the path of technological irrelevance.

Because there was no way to keep up on all the fronts of change, I had to be selective with what I chased and what I let fall away. .Net and Java were gone. By the time I jumped into either one of those with both feet the amount of effort to catch-up would be possibly insurmountable – and if I could catch up, the technology could be dead in favor of other things. No, the answer was to build on my existing skill set, and try to leapfrog on to a few things that would couriers of the next wave.

This blog will focus mostly on those technologies of the next wave. Cloud, mobility, agile (as a way of thinking not just project management), and big data.