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 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 Jul 25, 2008 in Architecture, Articles, Baseline, Main, Maintenance, Management | 0 Comments
My lastest Baseline column is up, in which I argue that setting up one or more maintenance architects within an enterprise can help reduce maintenance costs while at the same time providing a training path for chief software architects. Let me know what you think.
Sorry for the lack of postings here; I’ve actually been busy [...]