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Category Archives: Software development

Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and story-telling apes

Thursday, January 25, 2018

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 that a “system” will run society. If Then takes it a step further, positing a system that runs multi-variate testing on communities to optimize itself. In the popular science range, […]

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Distributed agile development teams

Friday, January 19, 2018

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 validating requirements before adding them to the backlog. The last few projects I’ve managed have been larger than most we do in my company. We needed very specific technical skills, […]

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Microservices in the enterprise – breaking out of the IT silo.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Microservices are entering the “early adopter” phase in large, established corporates.  I was talking to a friend who works for a large systems integrator, and he told me that this is now a common topic of discussion with CIOs. His client is a large insurer, and they are migrating the back-office IT systems to a […]

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Requirements – notes on value in software.

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

I was chatting with an old friend recently. We worked together in the 90s, building a custom software solution for a large, complicated multi-national company. The requirements for the system were owned by several senior stakeholders, across several offices, departments and timezones. I don’t recall a single meeting where all stakeholders were present, and one […]

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