Daily scrum haiku
I couldn’t resist adding a third verse (although I’m not entirely sure Haiku have verses) to address the most common problem in daily scrums: In the daily scrum, each team member, standing up, answers...
View ArticleTask-switching is waste
I’ve worked with a few companies where it was common practice for developers to work on more than one project concurrently. Guess what, parallel software development doesn’t deliver projects more...
View ArticleWake up and smell the complacency
Via Ed Gibbs. A recent Gartner reports says: Wake up IT managers, you’re mediocre at best. A sweeping generalisation? Probably. But I’ve definitely worked in places where mediocrity is accepted as...
View ArticleModernising Legacy Systems in the Financial Sector
“Large retail banks with outdated technology face extinction unless they can replace IT legacies” This is a bold claim made by Karl Flinders in a Computer Weekly article published in January 2014...
View ArticleReplacing Legacy Systems? Mind the gap!
Anyone who has travelled in London during the summer will have cursed the creaking transport system we call the Tube. Why is it so hot and crowded? Why can’t you get a phone signal? How about disabled...
View ArticleWhen to replace a legacy system?
Legacy systems are considered to be systems that have been operating in production for a long time. While the technology has become obsolete and the architecture outdated, it’s likely the business...
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2017 internet trends for Cloud: lock-in and governance
Mary Meeker’s chunky presentation on 2017 Internet Trends for Cloud and much else, includes insights on the switch by companies all over the world to cloud-based infrastructures. Global IT...
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