Is business agility the next thing?
Business devours technology in an effort to get ahead in an unwinnable arms race. Often the technology is designed to support the status quo, which is a problem because almost by definition an arms race can only be won by leapfrogging the competition and even then the gains will only be temporary. So it is […]
The definition of done
I was looking through some material the other day and a statement came up that I found intriguing. “What is your team’s definition of done?” Since I believe in the concept of “good enough” rather than spending the time and effort to hit perfection (since we all know that is probably not attainable) this concept […]
Voice recognition project completed at UTD
Every semester I try and work with some students at UTD by facilitating a ‘capstone’ project. It’s another dimension of my support for STEM education. Yesterday, they gave their presentation to their professor and class. This semester the project was creating an Android based speech recognition solution to facilitate a Voice-based Inspection and Evaluation Framework. […]
Thoughts from a discussion about architecture
Yesterday, I had a long discussion with Stephen Heffner the creator of XTRAN (and president of XTRAN, LLC). XTRAN is a meta transformation tool that excels at automating software work – sorry that is the best description I could come up for a tool that can create solutions to analyze and translate between software languages, data […]
Contemplating a more agile architecture
Last year, I did a presentation on the need for a more agile approach to architecture, where the whole approach needs to become more business-centric and less about the underlying technology. Concepts like: Time to action Value vs. expense Transparency Visibility Experimentation and continuous change are at the core of this discussion and the need […]
How Cloud Commoditization Will Transform Enterprise Computing
The announcement last week of Amazon’s new EC2 Spot Instances was more than just another move considerably ahead of the rest of the industry by that forward-looking cloud computing leader. Spot Instances also heralds the beginnings of a real trading…
