Tag: software
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #45
I’ve spent most of my content-time this week editing Monolithic Transformation. It’s rewording to simplify text here and there, and even better to slice out whole paragraphs. 18 pages in, I’ve reduced it by 3 pages. Let’s say I hit 1 page per 10, then the 82 page book will whittle down to, what, 74…
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Link: Virtualization software company Parallels reportedly to be acquired by Canada’s Corel
Both companies are “time was” status. Clearly, just a VC roll-up of cash cows: Corel, once publicly traded, is now owned by private equity firm Vector Capital and, in its history, has acquired several other firms and products, including InterVideo, Ulead, Micrografx, WinZip, Roxio and Pinnacle Systems. Parallels’ products include Parallels Desktop for Mac, Parallels…
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Link: DigitalOcean Survey Results Reveal the State of Open Source
“Nearly three quarter of developers surveyed say that their company expects them to use open source software to do their job. When deciding what projects to use, their companies place a premium on widely adopted technology (63%) with good documentation (48%) and active maintainers (42%).” Original source: DigitalOcean Survey Results Reveal the State of Open…
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Link: The State of Agile Software in 2018
The third thing that I want to stress is the importance of getting rid of software projects as a notion. Instead we want to switch to a product-oriented view of the world where instead of projects that you spin up, run for a while and then stop; you instead say, “Let’s focus on things that…
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Link: Software was important, but civics hacking is the real enabler
Techmeme’s summary is all you need to read: Three recent books argue that big tech became powerful not because of “software disruption” but by ducking regulation, squeezing workers, strangling competitors Original source: Software was important, but civics hacking is the real enabler
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Link: Cyber Airmen fuel innovation
Any problems discovered in the software can be more easily corrected, a small failure being preferable to correcting the shortfalls of an entire software suite. Changes requested by the customer can sometimes be delivered in just a couple days. Prior to Jigsaw, the tanker mission planners would use whiteboards to plot out their fueling rendezvous.…
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Link: Mesosphere revenue, etc.
“Last year in Q4 we issued news about hitting a $50m+ run rate and this year’s Q2 marks our biggest quarter ever, beating our numbers over the last 14 quarters. In fact, according to a recent report from Inc, we are the third fastest-growing software company in the U.S. with a revenue growth of 7,507…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #42
I’ve been trying to figure out micro.blog as a platform. Hosting all my stuff over there seems much nicer than at WordPress. I think I’ve got all my stuff setup there now, at cote.coffee. Really, it’s just a duplicate of what’s here – mostly links. This week I managed to be in both London and…
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Link: Transforming the Air Force into a software company with more airpower
“We have a small team that was tired of working this way and tired of not being able to provide this capability to our warfighters,” said Adam Furtado (pictured), chief product officer at the U.S. Air Force. “Basically, Congress told us to figure something new out.” And: “We’ve been designing a brand new system to…
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Link: Project management vs. product management
‘That discussion starts with a very concise and useful distinction between project management (the world the government knows) and product management (the world it doesn’t). Project management, they write, is “focused on managing to a plan” – such as managing schedule, budget, risk, policy compliance and then reporting status to stakeholders. “Success for a project…
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Link: Defense Innovation Board unveils ‘Ten Commandments of Software’
“It seems to me that in our meetings so far we’ve seen many many helper-types — supporters, planners, document writers, and so forth,” he went on. “But it’s a very rare event when we have a meeting with what I would consider to be programmers. One of my most fun questions is to sit in…
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Link: Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar
“Briefly, microservices is a service-oriented software architecture in which server-side applications are constructed by combining many single-purpose, low-footprint network services. The touted benefits are improved modularity, reduced testing burden, better functional composition, environmental isolation, and development team autonomy. The opposite is a Monolithic architecture, where a large amount of functionality lives in a single service…
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Link: Making public policy in the digital age – digital HKS
When you can put our releases weekly, how do you channel the feedback to government policy and laws? We’re used to policy being static, and slow. But with a small batch approach, you could experiment and change policy, just like you can the software. It’ll likely be a long, long time before that happens, but…
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Link: My Interoperable Opinions of Cloud Foundry Summit 2018
“[I]n my previous life working in IT, I’ll admit I wasn’t in the opinionated camp. I didn’t even understand it as a concept. I generally went for selecting software with the ultimate flexibility. What I didn’t realize was how often this led to analysis paralysis and decreased productivity.” I remember one of the last projects…
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Link: Will open source software become a ‘tragedy of the commons’?
I love this concept of tragedy of the anti-commons: “Strong management can stop this overuse. But because contributors haven’t been able to derive value through a platform built just for them, they must look for other ways to gain value, perhaps through the addition of intellectual property. And this leads us into the tragedy of…
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Link: Why Software Developers Should Take Ethics Into Consideration
“[Developers are ]not asking themselves, what are the ethical consequences of this? Who could get hurt by this? Who does this enable over another person? Who does this disadvantage or advantage? They’re not asking those questions. My goal is to have that part of the natural sequence of developing software.” Original source: Why Software Developers…
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Link: Worldwide SMB IT Spending to Pass $600 Billion in 2018, Driven by Mid-Market Demand for Software and Services, According to IDC
For companies under 1,000 people, IDC “forecasts total IT spending by small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to be nearly $602 billion in 2018, an increase of 4.9% over 2017. With a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.7% for the 2016-2021 forecast period, spending by businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees on IT hardware, software,…
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Link: Dell EMC’s Chad Sakac Takes New Role At Pivotal Software To Align Dell’s Cloud, Software, Hardware – Page: 1 | CRN
“The job is simple – helping make our aligned Dell Technologies developer platform come together, and make our answer on the ‘how’ (material = more important) of ‘digital transformation’ (buzzword = less important) reach more customers,” Sakac wrote. Original source: Dell EMC’s Chad Sakac Takes New Role At Pivotal Software To Align Dell’s Cloud, Software,…
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Link: Brexit could see UK lose status as global business leader
“The study also suggests that software might be the solution to these upcoming problems. Almost all (93 per cent) of CIOs and 84 per cent of ITDMs have said that the ability to create their own software is essential for preparing an organisation for the effects of Brexit.” Original source: Brexit could see UK lose…
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