A sad Cobol story

This isn’t a happy story, it has no happy ending, I suffered personally, its personal but I want to share.…

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Technical Liabilities and not Technical Debt

My last – frustrated – post finished with this line: “banks are collecting technical debt the way they used to…

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Conclusion: Agile & ERP, part 5

The story so far… Agile & ERP? The Good News about Agile & ERP ERP Culture v. Agile Culture Th…

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The Bad News: Agile & ERP, part 4

The story so far… Part 1: Agile & ERP introduced Part 2: Good News: Agile can work with ERP! Part…

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Culture problems: Agile & ERP part 3

I suggested some cultural problems with software development in an ERP setting in my second post on Agile and ERP,…

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The Good News – Agile & ERP, part 2

First the good news: there is a lot of Agile practices which work just fine in an ERP environment. These…

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Software development is upside down

In the software development world a number of common management maxims need to be reversed if one is to be…

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Surge or pivot? – notes on failure

Failure is good. We learn from failure. Failure is learning; the information content of a failure may be more than the…

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Using cost of delay to determine schedule

“When does the business need it?” is far more important than “When will the developers have it ready?”. Business needs…

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