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…
The key to distributed, Agile software development is to get good velocity by making sure the work the developers pick up is “workable”. This means…