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 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 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 7, 2008 in Development, Main, Management | 2 Comments
Sorry I haven’t posted much lately; I actually have a few posts in draft status, but I’m currently in Dallas, pouring over hundreds of pages of source code listings (Z8 assembler, anyone?) and haven’t had a chance to finish up any of them. In the meantime, here’s my latest Baseline column on the challenges of [...]
By bfwebster on Jun 19, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Management, Metrics, Surviving Complexity | 0 Comments
My newest Baseline column is up: “Lies, Damned Lies, and Project Metrics (part 3)“. In it, I wrap up my discussion on IT project metrics, outlining a possible approach using instrumentation and heuristics. Go check it out. ..bruce..