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Business Intelligence does not Come From a Product
There is this guy, Bradford Cross, whom I met on my first project at ThoughtWorks. I remember the day in a profound way, as I was on my first day at a client that, you could say, was something of a...
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The Root Causes of Technical Debt
When we spend 80% of a development budget just keeping software that we already presumably “own” working and current, we know that technical debt is extracting a terrible toll on our budget. When...
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Why IT Matters More Than Ever
In 2003, Harvard Business Review published Nick Carr’s seminal essay, “IT Doesn’t Matter.” I remember that month well. The previous years of the PC boom, followed by the dotcom boom, had seen a tidal...
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Just Make Me Think! The Best Technologies Force Hard Choices.
In thinking about what is so compelling about certain new technologies that have emerged in recent years, a common theme is starting to emerge. The best technologies don’t just do something useful,...
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F# Based Discriminated Union/Structural Similarity
Imagine you have a need to take one type, which may or may not be a discriminated union, and see if it “fits” inside of another type. A typical case might be whether one discriminated union case would...
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Upper Management Support the Key to Success? No.
You have heard this one before. They key to project success is “Upper Management Support”. I hear the phrase so much it is pretty much a cliche, right up there with “be aligned with the business”....
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Welcome to the Revenge of The Nerds Economy
Many of you will remember Revenge of The Nerds, that fine classic movie where a bunch of, well, nerds take over the campus of Adams college by outsmarting and outwitting the jocks. For people who work...
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Everybody’s Doing Agile–Why Can’t We?
Have you gone Agile? What are you doing this year to become Agile? We must become Agile in the next three months! These days, it is not unusual to hear about executives wanting to do an “Agile...
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The Link Between Continuous Delivery and Agile
Now that Agile has passed the 10-year mark, many people are starting to wonder what the next step should be in the evolution of Agile. As we start to think about what’s next, it doesn’t hurt to think...
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On (not) Being Post-Technical
In ThoughtWorks, one of the most poignant insults one can throw at you is “so-and-so has gone post-technical”. This usually means one has entered the land of management, that place where you give back...
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The Analytics Maturity Spectrum
There is no doubt “Big Data” has taken the tech world by storm. I have spent much of 2013 talking about analytics and data science with people all around the US, going to conferences like Strata, and...
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Traits of Analytics Led Companies
Imagine you are the CEO of a retailer. The economy is roaring, people are starting to shop more at your higher end shops, increasing margin. Quarter over quarter top line revenue growth is coming in,...
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Elimination of Egospend – The Real Reason We Need Lean Enterprise
The project that has been 90% done for six months. The program that is 5 years late. The company division that continually loses money, but somehow, survives, getting more good money thrown after bad....
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