By bfwebster on Sep 24, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Development, Management, Project Failure, Quality assurance, Surviving Complexity | 0 Comments
Obviously, I’ve been slow in posting here, since I’ve had two new columns go up at Baseline since I last posted. The first column, “Second Class Software Quality for Major IT Projects”, talks about the curious fact that organizations are willing to spend millions, tens of millions, even hundred of millions of dollars on major [...]
By bfwebster on Aug 29, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Development, Main, Maintenance | 2 Comments
My newest Baseline column is up, talking about the dilemma faced in deciding whether to acquire software or build it yourself: The other day, an IT colleague of mine mentioned a conflict at a corporation where he’s working. The corporation has a mission-critical application deployed across a large number of workstations. The set of corporate [...]
By bfwebster on Aug 7, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Development, Main, Management, Surviving Complexity | 1 Comment
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 [...]
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 [...]