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Yesterday I spent the evening at a dinner in London as a stand-in for my colleague Bola Rotibi, talking about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and governing software delivery to a group of around 20 senior IT leaders. Due to my own disorganisation I’d not realised that this was a stand-up talk with no visuals or [...]
Posted on Friday, March 20, 2009 by adminUncategorized
On Tuesday 6th January 2009, Borland made a number of gloomy announcements that, given the prior forecast for 2009 and the company’s poor quarterly returns were to be expected. The news that the company is reducing its workforce by 15% will undoubtedly be worrying for those affected but it is hardly unique in an industry [...]
Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2009 by adminUncategorized
Bob McIlree wrote an interesting blog at the start of October about watching the amount of ‘technical debt’. The term is one that I had not previously encountered. Ward Cunningham first defined it back in 1992 and Martin Fowler provided an additional and perhaps slightly clearer perspective in 2003. “…You have a piece of functionality [...]
Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 by admin
