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By bfwebster on Oct 3, 2012 in Architecture, Competition, Education, Main, Marketing, Product development | 0 Comments
With the growing swell of articles about the still-hypothetical iPad Mini — see, for example, this thoughtful analysis over at Vodkapundit – I find it interesting that I see very little written about one of the hottest consumer niches for the iPad: kids. Which is surprising, since kids desperately want to get their hands on [...]
By bfwebster on Nov 20, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Education, Management, Product development, Software engineering, Surviving Complexity | 0 Comments
My latest Baseline column is up, and it talks about why you should read these five books now, if you haven’t already. And if you have read them, you should probably re-read them. ..bruce..
By bfwebster on Nov 18, 2008 in Education, Hiring, Main, Professionalism | 4 Comments
And I mean no disrespect to plumbers for that comment. Many states require plumbers to be licensed, unlike software engineers. I was reading the comment thread to this Slashdot post on the declining percentage of women studying computer science. All the explanations you would expect are offered, with a fair amount of point and counterpoint. [...]
By bfwebster on Nov 3, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Education, Main, Management, Surviving Complexity | 0 Comments
I’ve written previously about the “Dead Sea effect“, in which your best IT engineers and managers leave over time, leaving behind an IT staff that is slowly becoming less competent and effective. Obviously, to counteract the Dead Sea effect, you want to hold onto your best IT people. My two latest Baseline columns talk about [...]
By bfwebster on Jun 24, 2008 in Education, Main | 1 Comment
I previously discussed the up-and-down cycle of college enrollment in computer science and related fields. More accurately put, there have been two large peaks in computer science enrollment: one in the mid- to late 1980s (which happens to be when I was teaching CS at Brigham Young University) and another right around the turn of [...]