By bfwebster on Mar 4, 2009 in Articles, Baseline, Development, IT Project Management, Main, Maintenance | 0 Comments
My newest Baseline column is up, and in it, I talk about technology lifecycles that can cause you grief:
Each technology is on its own product lifecycle, which may or may not match with your organization’s business and development lifecycles. In particular, there are certain cycle mismatch patterns that commonly occur in organizations looking to adopt [...]
By bfwebster on Sep 24, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Development, IT Project Management, Main, Management, Quality assurance, Software engineering, Surviving Complexity | 0 Comments
The first column, “Second Class Software Quality for Major IT Projects”, talks about the curious fact that organizations are willing to spend millions, tens of millions, even hundred of millions of dollars on major IT project and yet still nickle-and-dime their software quality assurance (SQA) effort. It doesn’t help that SQA personnel are pretty much [...]
By bfwebster on Aug 29, 2008 in Admin, Articles, Baseline, Development, Main, Maintenance, Technology | 0 Comments
If it’s Friday, it must be another Baseline column. This one talks about the issues surrounding whether to build or buy software:
The other day, an IT colleague of mine mentioned a conflict at a corporation where he’s working. The corporation has a mission-critical application deployed across a large number of workstations. The set [...]
By bfwebster on Aug 7, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Development, IT Project Management, Main, Surviving Complexity | 0 Comments
My latest Baseline column talks about the risks that follow a successful IT project:
But sometimes with projects that really shouldn’t succeed—that are attempting too much, too fast, with too many risks—enough things go right, particularly along the critical paths, enough superhuman effort is made by those involved, so that the project does indeed go into [...]
By bfwebster on Jul 17, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Development, Main, Management | 0 Comments
My latest Baseline column is up, discussing how to make a distributed software development project work. ..bruce..