...falsification test. Whatever the proposition you’re on the verge of accepting, ask yourself what collection of evidence would change your mind. If you can’t imagine one, well, meaning no offense,...…
...work in IT’s trenches it’s meant to help you prepare for what’s coming. The next few columns will be about some of the practical considerations, and more importantly, how to...…
...said in a different context, what you say is less important than how you say it. This explains the influence of many experts and self-anointed visionaries. As your company’s technology...…
...infrastructure, platforms, information repositories, applications, interfaces and integration, is not to mention the many-to-many mappings connecting your applications and business capabilities. Here’s the point Technical architecture management includes the concept...…
...By definition the authors are influential in the end-user community, so making them champions for the new system will increase acceptance. Second: By definition as well, the authors understand how...…
...makes the most sense for use in exercising the new system. One more preparatory step: IT trains a few developers in the new application — the ones it plans to...…
...promoting innovation it’s now inhibiting it, I created quite a stir. Let me propose a compromise: have patents expire sooner. After all, everyone knows business cycles are shorter than they...…
...plain wonderful and I would have been a dope if I hadn’t. Okay, I’m being self-indulgent. If your new spouse received your column every week by e-mail (you can too:...…
...extension to finish the project. (By the way, for those of you on Year 2000 projects – you won’t get an extension. Sorry.) 6. In IS we often work in...…
...insisted on crippling its integration with tablet-style computing. The lesson for IT is clear … at least as clear as ClearType, whose introduction internal politics delayed for a decade: When...…