Legacy systems exist in almost every enterprise – and sometimes, an upgrade has more ROI than chasing after the “new shiny.”
Momentum Over Metrics

Legacy systems exist in almost every enterprise – and sometimes, an upgrade has more ROI than chasing after the “new shiny.”
Most software professionals have never seen a successful software development project, continuous delivery evangelist Dave Farley said, and have “built careers on doing the wrong thing”.
Many startup teams are, by definition, short-term gigs. Spin up a startup, work hard, accomplish amazing things, and flip. Some startups do end up becoming corporations, but that’s a rare case. Hollywood (film production in general) works the same way, so what can we learn from Hollywood?
By now, we are all aware that social media has had a tremendous impact on our culture, in business, on the world-at-large. Social media websites are some of the most popular haunts on the Internet…
Former Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit explains why new branches of data science must steer from the impulse to measure correlation and instead seek to explore causality. New discoveries in causality built upon big data can then be used to help people break bad habits and steer clear of harmful behaviors.
Given the time and expense associated with implementing a large-scale solution, it’s worth considering whether building small programs around specific problems and then scaling up is the right approach for your organization.
Requirements and business rules are often considered hard and fast, never to be broken. Sometimes real value can be gained by breaking them. Find out how.
Helpless. When it comes to computers or technology, that one word describes more people than would ever admit to it. In my experience, this applies to almost all corners of technology be it product development for a public audience, private in-shop development, or a mix of both.
Remember back in the 90s when there were “enterprise developers” and normal “developers”? No, wait, we still have that silo today. With constantly evolving “enterprise” needs we need to bring the agile, reward mentality into the enterprise.