Favour learning over fixing. Most software projects encounter lots of “problems”. Bugs, production issues, team members not getting on, external dependencies failing – it can…
The Internet is fun. “How many users do we need to support?” is a question I have heard hundreds of times, and nearly always, the…
Running a meeting is an art form. I don’t know anyone who actively enjoys meetings, and I often find myself in meetings which feel like…
This conversation seems to keep coming up – “how do we give software engineers (in the widest sense – DevOps, QA, etc.) a career ladder…
A few days ago, I wrote about my experience delivering a large web project and compared it to the Hertz/Accenture law suit. A friend asked…
“Where are we, and what should we do” is a question I’ve had to answer on many consulting engagements. It’s often wrapped in very different…
I wrote earlier about Hertz suing Accenture over the failed web replatforming. Again – I have no knowledge other than what I read in the…
Let’s start with a disclaimer – I have no knowledge of this situation other than what I’ve read on the news. This post is conjecture…
I’ve been working on software projects for a living for 30 years. In 1989, I worked on a COBOL application which managed orders, production schedules,…
I’ve been reading, and focusing on AI. In the fiction area, Gnomon is a complete mind-melt. One of the many premises of the book is…