I’ve seen it more times than I can remember; I’ve read it twice as much. Projects that fall into one of the three categories: Incomplete / Requirements not Met Over Budget Committed Time for Completion Missed Actually, now that I...
It has been a good while since I’ve provided any commentary on Apple. The last time I wrote about them was within a year of Steve Jobs’ death. At the time, I predicted that Apple would lose its shine. It...
Today, I was reading one of the many RSS feeds to which I subscribe. I was particularly interested in an article that was giving an off-handed compliment to a large cable provider. In this article, the writer was congratulating the...
As I was working with the latest release of a software solution (an operating system), I began to have issues that were some pretty obvious defects. As I pondered why it was possible that I was having problems that could...
As a technology professional, I’ve had my fair share of jobs over the years…most at different companies. Consequently, I’ve had a heck of a lot more interviews. I’ve noted some common themes, and groupings, throughout this time. I’ve also hired...
Full disclosure first: I would be remiss to not state that I have a very strong bias that I am hoping to largely control in this article. But this is my opinionated section. 🙂 I am 100% against displacing workers....
What?! Enterprise Resource Planning systems. That’s the WIKIPEDIA expansion of the ERP acronym. For those who haven’t worked with these solutions (really, systems is a bit of an oversimplification), it may look like it’s a pretty simple thing. But like...
Here we go again. Another data breach. This time it is Anthem Inc. (Blue Cross / Blue Shield) Eighty million affected people, if the information is valid. Major OUCH! So far, over the last year or so, we’ve seen Home...
Technology, as an industry, has a pretty consistent history of creating better ways of doing things, but not completely thinking solutions through fully the first time. I’m not talking about natural product evolution. I’m talking about releasing products or solutions...
Remember ASP? No, not Microsoft’s Active Server Pages. I mean Application Service Provider. What about SaaS? Not a misspelling for sassy. Software as a Service. Really, ASP became SaaS, which helped spawn cloud computing. Easy, huh? The problem is that...
I’ll admit it. I bought in to the hype. I followed the dream of having something on my wrist that could do everything for me…park my car, make my breakfast, show me the winning lottery number the night before. Okay,...
This isn’t my first attempt at a useful blog. I’m happy to say it’s not my 20th, either. The same can’t be said for the number of domains I “own.” They all seemed like great ideas when first registered. But,...