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Agile Challenges and The Great Divide
Agile software development is a funny thing. Most of what I know about formal Agile methodologies comes from my friend Roland Cuellar. He wrote the chapter on Agile in my second book. While I’m...
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ETL Checkpoints
ETL tools can be extremely involved, especially with complex data sets. At one time or another, many data management professionals have built tools that have done the following: Taken data from...
View ArticleOn Steve Jobs, Agile, and Meeting IM Needs
In an interview in Inc. Magazine, Steve Jobs once said, “You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.” Jobs’...
View ArticleEmbracing the unexpected
The nineteen century belonged to the engineers. Western society had been invigorated and changed beyond recognition by the industrial revolution through its early years and by its close the railroads...
View ArticleThe MDM Myth
MDM is exclusively for large, complex organizations strewn across the globe. MDM projects require large budgets and extensive timelines and organizations will only see benefits years down the road. At...
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The 70-30 Rule
Up until four years ago, I made all of my money on large-scale IT projects. Many of these informed my first book, Why New Systems Fail. Since that time, I gradually made the break into speaking,...
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