https://www.why-did-it.fail/tags/career/Recent content in career on Why did IT failHugo -- gohugo.ioenCopyright © 2026 Dominik Textoris (formerly Zorgnotti). All Rights Reserved.Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2021-04-epic2-award-fy22q1/Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2021-04-epic2-award-fy22q1/Wow, what a day: Today I have received the Germany FY22/Q1 EPIC2 award at VMware for “Integrity”! FY22-Q1 VMware EPIC2 award EPIC2, this is short for execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community, is really the core of the VMware company culture. Integrity at VMware means: “Integrity focuses on building trust. Employees are expected to say what they do and do what they say. The company encourages peers to build and nurture relationships with one another, customers, partners, shareholders, and the community—without taking anything for granted.https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2019-03-vcdx-design-requirements/Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2019-03-vcdx-design-requirements/This blog post has not the intend to define what a requirement/constraint is, there are already very good posts out there. Lately I pointed a lot of people over to Jeffrey Kusters who did an excellent job of summarizing it but I included also two other good links: https://www.jeffreykusters.nl/2018/06/25/breaking-down-the-conceptual-design-rcars-and-amprs-vcdx-style/ http://www.i-1.nl/blog/?p=58016 https://blog.jgriffiths.org/advice-to-vcdx-candidates-from-a-double-vcdx/ What is this about? If you are like me, coming from a pure technical background, the conceptual model of the VCDX exam proves to be the hardest part - especially since your journey starts with it and there is no shortcut around it (Rene gives good advice, as always https://vcdx133.https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2019-02-vcdx-basic-skills-whiteboard/Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2019-02-vcdx-basic-skills-whiteboard/Disclaimer: I am by no means an expert on this topic nor have I got the feeling that my performance during the VCDX defense was exceptional. However, some basic training got me from “zero” to at least one step further - more or less readable handwriting. We all take it for granted - there is a whiteboard in the room and we all know how it works, right? In any kind of meeting, when there is an idea in the room, you need to take notes or need to visualize something - you start drawing and writing on the whiteboard.https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2019-01-vcdx-thank-you/Wed, 02 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://www.why-did-it.fail/blog/2019-01-vcdx-thank-you/On December 13th, 2018 I received an email that confirmed that I passed the VCDX certification. For me this marks the end of a chapter which I would call the VCDX journey and I have to thank many, many people for supporting me along the way up to this point. Easily the longest supporter of my efforts has been Bilal Ahmed. In his always good natured way he managed to guide me since VCAP design-days with solid advice and motivation.