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By Sander Hoogendoorn January 2016 Back in 1988, when I was first employed by a company for writing software, the world was fairly simple. The development environment we had was character-based, the database was integrated and traversed with cursors, and we built a whole new administrative system covering everything but the kitchen sink. It took […]

By Mitchell Weisberg December 2015 Many companies have demonstrated that IT can be successfully managed as a business within the business—an organization focused on business strategy, operational efficiency, and delivery of both short-term and long-term value. The high-performance IT organizations that operate in this way have become strategic assets for their enterprises in today’s increasingly

By Arie van Bennekum October 2015 Agile is not a trend anymore. Agile has established after 20-25 years of hardwork, learning, sharing and more learning and sharing. Before we wrote the Agile Manifesto we all worked in the domain we favoured and/or published on. For me it was Dynamic Systems Development Systems (DSDM, now known

By Gerhard Bayer October 2015 Analysts as well as IT vendors across the board are throwing around very big numbers when it comes to forecasting the explosive development of the Internet of Things (IoT): 50 Billion devices being connected by 2020 and drastic changes how companies will do business – to the tune of $14

By Shaku Atre September 2015 What are they? They connect us with friends, find us restaurants, allow us to deposit checks at home without having to visit ATMs, let us pay our bills online, provide the news, help us avoid traffic congestion, and even let us find with one click the side effects of a

By Aaron Shenhar August 2015 Is project manager a job, or a profession? If it’s a job, what do you have to do? If it’s a profession, what do you have to know? If you are like most people, you’ve got the job first. Most likely, you became a project manager because you were good

By Aaron Shenhar July 2015 Is project manager a job, or a profession? If it’s a job, what do you have to do? If it’s a profession, what do you have to know? If you are like most people, you’ve got the job first. Most likely, you became a project manager because you were good

By Mike Ferguson June 2015 In the last two years, we have seen many companies go beyond traditional data warehouses and begin to adopt Big Data technologies. For most, the reason is simple. They need to remain competitive by capturing more data to produce new insights e.g. about customers. Examples of such data include governments

By Aaron Shenhar May 2015 Is project manager a job, or a profession? If it’s a job, what do you have to do? If it’s a profession, what do you have to know? If you are like most people, you’ve got the job first. Most likely, you became a project manager because you were good