...yada yada. What will you be upgrading from? Windows 95, of course, which I guess must be slower and more fragile. Who writes this copy? News flash to Microsoft: You’re...…
...have very little power over their work and figure their authority is fragile. Their initiative requires faith that you won’t abrogate it. Once you do, asking them to waste their...…
...Because many of these end-user-developed systems succeed, that’s why. By becoming too successful they become production applications … fragile production applications that require duplicate data entry, disagree with the system...…
...contend with this year, so a prediction at the year’s start doesn’t seem inappropriate.Despite what everyone knows, the economy is dreadfully fragile. I’ll spare you the detailed economic analysis and...…
...dealing with all the offended customers who were insulted by the request (despite the fact that it was a practice that was intended to protect them and their fragile egos)....…
...cost you a lot more than you’ll save by building the system in Access. Even worse, Access databases become fragile when they get too big, which means that if you’re...…
...everything more fragile and harder to maintain than would have been the case had you used a welding torch or stainless steel bolts. Kludges and workarounds are ugly inside and...…
...is a great way to make sure nobody submits a 30-hour request. (Sidebar gripe #3: I like agile methodologies. They have a lot going for them. But why haven’t any...…
...a quart. My Age 20 (Celsius) brain is not as agile as it once was but mentally doing a litres to gallons and KMs to miles conversion yielded an estimate...…
...by applying a simplistic rule. Too little infrastructure means business functionality becomes unnecessarily expensive, unwieldy and fragile. Too much infrastructure and the business becomes slow, stodgy, and top-heavy. Topic #3:...…
