By bfwebster on Aug 7, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Development, Main, Management, Surviving Complexity | 0 Comments
My latest Baseline column talks about the risks that follow a successful IT project:
But sometimes with projects that really shouldn’t succeed—that are attempting too much, too fast, with too many risks—enough things go right, particularly along the critical paths, enough superhuman effort is made by those involved, so that the project does indeed go into [...]
By bfwebster on Jul 25, 2008 in Architecture, Articles, Baseline, Main, Maintenance, Management | 0 Comments
My lastest Baseline column is up, in which I argue that setting up one or more maintenance architects within an enterprise can help reduce maintenance costs while at the same time providing a training path for chief software architects. Let me know what you think. ..bruce..
By bfwebster on Jul 23, 2008 in Main | 0 Comments
I’ve been doing on-site work in both Texas and Virginia, as well as having a case start up in Denver. However, I have some ideas for posts here and over at bfwa.com; I’ll try to get those out in the next few days. ..bruce..
By bfwebster on Jul 17, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Development, Main, Management | 0 Comments
My latest Baseline column is up, discussing how to make a distributed software development project work. ..bruce..
By bfwebster on Jul 10, 2008 in Development, Main, Product development, Software engineering | 1 Comment
The very first class I took when starting my computer science degree from Brigham Young University was CS 131. I forget the course title, but the teacher was Dr. Alan Ashton, a quiet, self-effacing but brilliant professor who would later become very, very rich by developing — along with Bruce Bastian (with whom I shared [...]