As I’ve talked about before (and everyone already kind of knows), good requirements are a key driver to success. To put it simply, you need to know what problem you are trying to solve for your customer, what your end user really wants, and what they are expecting you to build. It’s all about Expectation […]
One enormous shift occurring across the industry right now, across all industries in fact, is the migration to the Cloud. I bet if you do some web searches right now you will find a myriad, nay a plethora, of articles talking about why you should migrate to the Cloud (and why their consulting firm is […]
What is an Enterprise Architect, or a Cloud Architect, or a Software Architect? Many people think it’s just a fancy title, something to show that someone is more senior than a senior developer or a principal developer, but not necessarily a manager. A great example is Bill Gates; when he retired from Microsoft his title […]
New technologies come and go all the time, and new fads come and go all the time. But some of them, when they are true game changers, do stick. Take virtualization, for example. Boy has it stuck! One hotly-debated trend right now is, of course, the Cloud. What is the Cloud, really? Many people like […]
I offended someone one time by referring to systems administrator as plumbers. I certainly meant no offense…after all, can you imagine life without plumbers? Furthermore I was considering myself in that category, as after all I am a systems administrator as well. Anyways, even though it was a couple of years ago, sorry. I still […]
One of the biggest buzzwords in industry right now is, of course, “The Cloud”. But for all the positive marketing hype, I see just as much negative pushback, especially from the older IT crowd. For example, I see this meme (or some variation thereof) a lot: There’s no cloud, it’s just someone else’s datacenter. My […]
All last week I was out of the office on a business trip. Now usually when I travel like this, I basically write off the week as not really getting anything done. Instead I focus on what I’m traveling for, then just plan on catching up when I return to my desk. But this week […]
Let’s face it, if you’re in any sort of business today, you’re in the technology business. Whether you think it or not, technology is critical to your business. Information technology, software, social media marketing, business to business integration, it’s all technology. If that’s true, then we are all faced with a dilemma. Tech is an […]
There is a strategic problem I’ve been wrestling with lately. It’s really just a question, albeit a complicated one. But I have really looked far and wide and been unable to find any good answers to the question, or even many people addressing it or even thinking about it. So to understand the question, let’s […]
Security Doesn’t Have to be Hard Security. Even just hearing the word can make any IT engineer wince. In most big enterprise environments, when you think “security” you think about that compliance engineer who every month brings you a list of vulnerabilities they found that you need to fix by next month. Inevitably, some portion […]
