The Opportunity Cost of Debating Facts
I read this New York Times editorial: How the Truth Got Hacked, and it reminded me of a situation at work, back when I first joined Host Analytics some four years ago. This line, in particular, caught my attention: Imagine the conversation we’d be having if we weren’t debating facts. Back when I joined Host Analytics, […]
Dealing with “disposable software” for enterprises
With consumer SaaSes and mobile apps coming and going, I’ve been thinking of the idea of “disposable software”: apps that last a year or so, but aren’t guaranteed to last longer. In the consumer space, there’s rarely been a guarantee that free software will last – that’s part of the “price” you pay for free. […]
The Tide Turns on Big Outsourcing – on cloud, agile, and rebuilding skills
Tweet whoa. GE “we’re moving more than 60% of our global workload to @awscloud“. that’s a shitload of $$$ right there — Mike Drop (@monkchips) October 7, 2015 GE- “like many of you we outsourced way too much”. that’s GE saying that… big outsourcing is in big trouble. — Mike Drop (@monkchips) October 7, 2015 […]
Retooling for Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Serena
Tweet Serena Software has been around a long time: it cut its teeth in mainframe software development with products like ChangeMan, sold into large, traditional enterprise customers with large, traditional development methodologies. While the company does have a culture of innovation, its customers tend to be wary of change – their idea of change management […]
Thoughtworks on Go. Hudson to Jenkins: continuous integration market dynamics
I had an interesting and fun lunch last week with an old friend (of RedMonk) Dan Roberts, now of Thoughtworks. Dan used to work at Sun Microsystems.We talked about all kinds of stuff, but given the shape of Thoughtwork’s business continuous integration was bound to come up. I remember trying to persuade Sun senior management […]
The Developer Landgrab – Another Way to Look at Dev/Ops
After ejecting every function except writing code, development teams have been bringing those roles back to the core team, starting with QA, then product management, and now operations. The goal is deliver Frequent Functionality (features released more frequently rather than in big 12-18 month releases) and increase the value of the software by getting better […]
Wrapping Up TDWI – Agile? You Bet. And You Should.
I’ve posted twice about TDWI’s San Diego event, and I still haven’t exhausted the thoughts I wanted to share. That’s a measure of just how important and successful I think the show was. Three things jumped out at me: The audience is back, and it’s ready to spend. The event was buzzing; I was told […]
TDWI Event Focuses on Agile BI. What’s That?
I’m at the Data Warehouse Institute’s San Diego conference this week, and experimenting with an incremental approach to blogging for this event; I’ll try to get on a few times in the next 2 days (unfortunately that’s all the time I’ll have here) and communicate some quick thoughts, as opposed to my more typical style, […]
Beyond “late” software
Is it time to stop worrying about software being “late”? Cloud-inspired software delivery muddles the idea of a fixed release date, making the concept of late software difficult to pin down.
