Tag: 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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Largile, living with nudists, containers, & jobs – Coté Memo #21
It’s turkey time! In the US at least. There’s a few pieces of my content below and some links. I’m hoping to just have two more trips this year, but we’ll see what Q4 demands have. I’ll be at the Gartner AS&S conference in December. Come on by the Pivotal booth to say hi if…
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Coté Memo #081: The best steak I’ve ever eaten, and the slow train problem
Tech & Work World How Microservices Fixes the Slow Train Problem I write little columns for the internal Pivotal newsletter we have sometimes. Here’s one that’s about to go out. The ideas of “dependencies” and “coupling” are important touch points for understanding and conveying the software delivery benefits of a microservices approach to architecture. “Coupling”…
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Let’s take \”enterprise\” out of the parking lot
> Rather than build out your next Instagram or SnapChat knock-off, consider disrupting 30 years of clunky software with horrendous user interfaces. The office-drone masses will bless you for it. [Let’s take “enterprise” out of the parking lot](http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteenterprise/~3/3C0X6UX3cc8/enterprise-tech-boom-cool-to-be-boring)
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ING infects Capital One with Agile
When Capital One started to roll out agile development in 2011, Wolfs said it amounted to just one percent of software that was delivered. Today, 85 percent of software is delivered by the agile method. With agile, Capital One now also releases approximately 400 product releases a month, has cut delivery times to three to…
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40,000 plus Macs in use at Google
And check out the comments for this gem: Do American universities not teach their computer programmers to use sensible names for objects? “Cauliflower Vest is an end-to-end Mac OS X FileVault 2 recovery key escrow solution.” Yup, first thing that comes to mind. It would be nice if we could assemble a tool set without…
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Finished In Search of Stupidity
I finished reading In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters today during lunch. All in all, it was an excellent book, and I’d recommend it to anyone in the software bid’ness. It’s got: (1.) good history of the software world, and, (2.) a good catalog of stupid mistakes software firms have…
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Links: Fast Zombies, Software Cash, Bacon
The Fast Zombie Tipping Point – will Dawn of the Dead transform Zombies from ambling slow-pokes to deadly speed-demons? Software Spending Estimates Adjusted Downwards – “At the end of last year, the top 25 software companies reported an 8 percent increase in sales. But, once currency fluctuations were taken into account, the revenue growth at…
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Can I Use the Word "Agile" Enough?
Zane’s post on the negative effects of personal motivations on software development reminded me of Cockburn’s discusion in Agile Development on the same topic. I went a-Googling for a write up, or summary of what was in the book. The closest thing I found was this, but the rest seemed like slim pickins. However, as…
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