By bfwebster on Nov 10, 2012 in Architecture, Development, IT Project Management, Main, Pitfalls, Quality assurance, Risk management, Software engineering | 0 Comments
Cross posted from And Still I Persist] [Note: I am currently in transit from Colorado to Florida and am composing this post as I have time and 'net access.] “All the most important mistakes are made on the first day.” – The Art of Systems Architecting (Maier & Rechtin) Project Orca was the Romney campaign’s [...]
By bfwebster on Jun 4, 2012 in IT Project Management, Main, RISE, Risk management, Software engineering | 0 Comments
[The second in a series of posts on Readings in Software Engineering. Previous post: The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerald M. Weinberg (1971/1998)] The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA, 1975. Softbound, 195 pages. Personal acquisition date: unknown. Original edition out of print. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays [...]
By bfwebster on Mar 1, 2011 in Lawsuits, Main, Risk management, Technology | 0 Comments
OK, just last week I wrote a post on a report out of UCSD regarding difficulties in erasing data from solid-state disks (SSDs). But now out of Australia comes a somewhat contradictory report that some SSDs actually erase ‘slack’ (unused) space themselves without any user or system intervention — and, furthermore, that they can do [...]
By bfwebster on Feb 24, 2011 in Lawsuits, Main, Risk management, Technology | 1 Comment
E-discovery — the recovery, analysis, and production of evidence stored in digital form on various media — has become a major issue in litigation because of how much data simple devices can hold and the resulting duplication and multiplication of documents, files, and other digital types of evidence. Because of the risks and costs of [...]
By bfwebster on Dec 28, 2009 in IT project disputes, IT Project Management, Main, Management, Pitfalls, Risk management, Surviving Complexity | 1 Comment
[cross-posted from brucefwebster.com] Roger Sessions has published a white paper, “The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity” (PDF). It’s created a bit of a stir in tech circles, largely because Sessions estimates that “worldwide, we are already losing over USD 500 billion per month on IT failure, and the problem is getting worse” (page 1; [...]