Buy vs. Build Your Software
Most organizations shift back and forth between building and buying software solutions in time with executive leadership shifts. To avoid the resulting IT portfolio churn, each organization should establish the IT strategy that best supports its business model – including decision criteria for build vs. buy – or be condemned to holy wars on every solution design. Our default recommendation is “buy,” and here is why. Read more
Document for Success, not Defense
A meeting recap is not a design document. Read more
Avoiding Accidental Choices
“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice…”
Peart, Neil. “Freewill.”Permanent Waves. Mercury 1980.
With frightening frequency, we see technology projects become subject to “accidental choices“, when rigor is bypassed without a conscious choice having been made to do so. Read more
Searching for Artifacts
“Ar·ti·fact: An object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a tool,
weapon, or ornament of archaeological or historical interest.”
The American Heritage Dictionary
Interesting. In the software engineering field an artifact is: Read more