By Adam Lewis
You may have caught an (as always) astute publication from Gartner called, “Gartner Says Service-Led Solutions Will Displace Traditional Sourcing Approaches Through 2015”. On the face of it, this headline may seem to be stating the...
Read moreWith the new year kicking off, it has been customary again to gaze into the crystal ball and envision – even predict – IT developments for the next 12 months or so (who starts these customs?). Instead I would like to take a slightly different...
Read moreIt’s interesting to see how Agile principles currently enjoy a state of obvious Renaissance. Or should we say Epiphany? To our mild surprise, there is a whole new generation of both clients and IT professionals that seemingly just today discovered...
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By Ron Tolido
Ah yes, testers and me. We go back a long, long time. It’s much like love, really. We had our high a few years ago, when I wrote an article series for an IT magazine. In this series I used practical observations and some basic anthropology to...
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By Ron Tolido
IT architects should learn: nothing beats a simple, powerful story. No, not even these six-layered, three-dimensional reference frameworks can do that; they are nice to discuss internally – among architects and all – but outside, in the real...
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By Ron Tolido
I just wanted to share the foreword I wrote for The Art of Enterprise Information Architecture, a book written by Eberhard Hechler and 5 of his colleagues at IBM. Obviously, I recommend the book to all of you. In the past two years, I have been more...
Read moreI had a task flag to take a look at the proceedings from the annual International Conference for Software Process Improvement, ICSPI 2008, but on visiting their site I was pretty amazed to find this message. Due to severe cuts in education and travel...
Read moreIn the past couple of years I have read much more widely than ever before as I have tried to understand Business Technology, the bringing together of technology and business into a single capability as opposed to IT which is a separate operation that...
Read moreI was thinking about IT, and how the business community can find IT services relevant to their work but not find the IT department relevant, something which was shown in our most recent CIO survey. It occurred to me that perhaps we (the IT...
Read moreI have been having an interesting dialogue with an ex colleague York whose own blog is well worth a read. The particular dialogue has been around what is essentially the changing, and expanded environment in which we are all increasingly working....
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