Author Archive: bfwebster
Webster is Principal and Founder at at Bruce F. Webster & Associates, as well as an Adjunct Professor for the BYU Computer Science Department. He works with organizations to help them with troubled or failed information technology (IT) projects. He has also worked in several dozen legal cases as a consultant and as a testifying expert, both in the United States and Japan. He can be reached at 303.502.4141 or at bwebster@bfwa.com.
The Art of ‘Ware (V 2.0, maxim 1:2): factors for success
[From The Art of ‘Ware (Version 2.0) by Bruce F. Webster (forthcoming), Chapter 1, “Starting Out”] These factors govern the success of the company: Tao; the economy; the marketplace; leadership; management. Tao means running the company so that all the employees share the same vision of success.1 “Tao” (literally, “the Way”) is probably the most […]
The Art of ‘Ware (V 2.0, maxim 1:1): product development
[From The Art of ‘Ware (Version 2.0) by Bruce F. Webster (forthcoming), Chapter 1, “Starting Out”] Product development is vital to the company: it defines the landscape of success and failure, the road to growth or collapse. It must be thoroughly studied.1 Every company has a product: that which it produces, sells, or exchanges. The […]
The Art of ‘Ware: an invitation
I’m going to start posting on this web site maxims from The Art of ‘Ware (Version 2.0), which is a revision of my original book. I’m doing this for two reasons. First, I plan to use these postings to expand my own commentary on the maxims. Second, I am actively soliciting commentary on the maxims […]
Why software developers should spend time in SQA
Last Monday morning, I spent a few hours helping out on a church service project, where we’re turning an unfinished basement of a single mother’s townhouse into a bedroom+bathroom for her daughter. At this point, the basement has been framed out and sheetrock hung. My first task on Monday was to take a damp sponge […]
The Wetware Crisis: TEPES
[Copyright 2008 by Bruce F. Webster. All rights reserved. Adapted from Surviving Complexity (forthcoming).] [Some edits and expansions made in 2018] In my forthcoming book, Surviving Complexity, the very first section is called “The Wetware Crisis”. This is a greatly expanded look at a problem that I first discussed in print twelve years ago in […]