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Output-Based Application Management
June 27, 2011 | Be the first to comment! You need an application delivered fast. And you’re willing to pay more to get it done quickly. But how much more should you pay? That depends of course on your supplier’s productivity. The more productive they are, the more they can charge on a per-hour basis. That’s because their productivity enables …Read More
How Not To Do APM
June 13, 2011 | Be the first to comment! A few weeks ago I moderated a webinar on Application Portfolio Management (APM) featuring Phil Murphy, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. It contains some excellent information on how to think about APM and I encourage you to download the presentation and the audio track. What follows are some thoughts about what …Read More
The Chaos Monkey
May 1, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Sometime last year, Netflix began using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to run their immensely successful video streaming business. They moved their entire source of revenue to the cloud. They are now totally reliant on the performance of AWS. How would you manage the business risk of such a move? Stop reading …Read More
Rumsfeld on Software – Handling Unknown Unknowns
March 31, 2011 | 3 Comments While former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld never spoke or wrote about software (as far as I know), his quip about unknown unknowns during the early months of the Iraq war is well known. No matter what you think of Rumsfeld, his classification applies nicely to software and teaches us a …Read More
Stock Exchange Failures – What Next?
March 3, 2011 | 1 Comment So, a slew of high-profile failures. Major stock exchanges suffering embarrassing technology breakdowns that have left some traders resorting to placing trades over old-fashioned phone lines! What next, ticker tape? Euronext, Borsa Italiana (bought by the LSE in 2007), the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and London (LSE) are all suffering or suffered …Read More
Bill Curtis Keynotes CONSEG 2011
February 17, 2011 | Be the first to comment! This week, Bill Curtis, SVP & Chief Scientist at CAST will be delivering a keynote presentation at CONSEG 2011 in Bangalore, India. Bill’s presentation, entitled “The Structural Quality of Business Application Software: An Empirical Report on the State of the Practice.” will focus on the conference theme: addressing the aspects of …Read More
Straight Talk on Technical Debt
February 15, 2011 | 3 Comments The intensity and speed of Agile development puts a premium on satisfying the functional requirements of business users. But this intense focus comes at the expense of structural quality. Can we measure this effect? Indeed. We can do it by calculating the technical debt accrued during the Agile development process. And once …Read More