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| Open Source Is Anarchy, Not Chaos |
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| Many people think of anarchy as a system devoid of governance; a situation in which there is a total lack of organisation or control. But that’s chaos, not anarchism. If open source used a chaotic system (which is an ... |
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23.03.07
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| Fast Work |
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| Multi-shore development is a growing trend but simply following the low cost model around the globe is no guarantee of achieving timely software development that actually meet business needs. Excellent processes are essential ... |
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27.09.06
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| Strategies For More Effective Requirements |
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| In a sector characterised by meaningless marketing slogans, the term ‘business-IT alignment’ induces perhaps more nausea and exasperation than any other. It is the IT professional’s misfortune that he or she has to try to convey ... |
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04.08.06
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| Dev Teams Aren’t Working On Development |
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| The time has come for a paradigm shift in application problem resolution. According to a Gartner Benchmarking Report, 40 per cent of the activities conducted by application development teams, on average, are associated with ... |
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09.01.06
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| In-House But Out Of Pocket? |
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| Businesses faced with implementing any enterprise-wide IT system must decide whether to build or buy. While some financial institutions insist on keeping developers in-house, an increasing number are realising the benefits of ... |
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16.12.05
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| Offshoring May Finally Deliver On Its Promises |
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| According to research from respected research house The Standish Group, two thirds of software projects worldwide are considered failures, more than half exceed budget and 84 per cent suffer from over-runs. For many ... |
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24.08.05
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| Computer languages - the end of an era? |
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| In the 70s, programmers had a terrific choice of languages. There was Fortran, or Cobol, Algol, Plan, and those upstarts C and Pascal. Plus, there was of course Basic, which was suitable for learning but not a real language, as ... |
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05.04.04
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| Implementing a software development process |
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| One important feature of having a development process based on best practice is that if any organisation already has a set of defined best practises, they may readily be substitutes for the equivalents in Rational Unified ... |
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19.02.04
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| Innovation rarely comes from industry behemoths |
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| Since the excesses of the dotcom boom there has been a well documented backlash on the software industry by buyers of enterprise software. No longer being swept along by the e-business hysteria, they have taken their revenge on ... |
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02.12.03
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| User-centric IT development is long overdue |
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| Few people could doubt that IT is now central to the success of modern organisations. Over the last 20 years, virtually every major company has deployed a wide range of applications which have transformed the speed at which ... |
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27.11.03
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| Microsoft: stealing a march on the monolith |
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| Microsoft's acquisition of Navision and Great Plains signalled a change in the enterprise software landscape. Not content with dominating our desktops and browsers, next on Bill's hit list is the market for business ... |
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16.10.03
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| Best of breed application development with SOAP |
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| The nature of software architecture and development has changed significantly and dramatically in the last couple of years. This evolution in systems development has been brought about as the result of a number of factors, most ... |
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10.09.03
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| The right content solution for customer-facing apps |
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| The vast majority of corporate applications focused on delivering client information on an enterprise basis - particularly customer portals and CRM installations - fail to achieve anywhere near their full potential to deliver ... |
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08.08.03
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