Archive for the ‘IT Observations’ Category
An Introduction to Kanban
Recently I introduced Kanban to an inflight development project with the objective of trialling this technique with a hope to raising productivity by overcoming various communication and process issues. In this three part series I’ll cover my real world experiences and the results felt by the project/team. This first part offers an introduction to Kanban, [...]
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Tags: Agile, Kanban, Management, Methodology
In this interesting Forrester post about embracing the open web Jeffrey Hammond highlights the presence of two different developer communities. In his words: "…there are two different developer communities out there that I deal with. In the past, I’ve referred to these groups as the "inside the firewall crowd" and the "outside the firewall crowd." [...]
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Tags: Cloud Computing, IT Industry, Learning, Web Development
Enterprise IT Project Insanity
A study published in the Harvard Business Review has again shown that many IT projects continue to come in late and over budget. In addition it shows that there is a higher than expected number of large scale failures. These failures are massively over budget (200% in this study) and over deadline (70% overruns) and [...]
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Tags: Agile, DevTeam, IT Industry
We have made huge advances over recent years in the tools available to the development team, including the more proactive and investigative tools (profiling tools, code analysis, performance analysis, debugging etc). However demanding project timelines mean that we have increasingly less time to investigate, trial and use these tools. Compounding the problem is that unfortunately [...]
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Tags: Agile, DevTeam, IT Industry
Is Your Gym Like Your Dev Team?
I recently managed to drag myself out of the office and into the gym, but unfortunately my mind was still on the office and my observations of what makes a dev team tick. In between sets I observed my fellow gym-goers and I witnessed similarities with my experiences of IT development teams. Parallels between your [...]
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Tags: Agile, DevTeam, linkedin
The Future Of The IT Department
Recently I have been witness to rapid, often painful, change within my own internal IT division over the last few years and observed the on-going developments in the industry. It is clear that IT departments changed dramatically in a short amount of time and the pace is not relenting. This has led me to try [...]
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Tags: Agile, Architecture, IT Industry, linkedin, Management
Ray Ozzie’s Dawn of a New Day
I would recommend everyone interested in technology to read Ray Ozzie’s (Chief Software Architect of Microsoft) memo – "Dawn of a New Day". It’s a fascinating insight into the vision of a key player in the industry and a call to arms for Microsoft and it’s partners. What interests me the most about this vision [...]
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Tags: Architecture, Cloud Computing, IT Industry, linkedin, SOA
Private Clouds Gaining Momentum
Well its been an interesting few weeks for cloud computing, mostly in the "private cloud" space. Microsoft have announced their Windows Azure Appliance enabling you to buy a Windows Azure cloud solution in a box (well actually many boxes as it comprises of hundreds of servers) and also the OpenStack cloud offering continues to grow [...]
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Tags: Architecture, CIO, Cloud Computing, IT Industry, linkedin
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