Get Your Weekends and Evenings Back
Get Your Weekends and Evenings Back
Articles about processes and systems that help provide confidence for the delivery of secure and compliant products.
When we have traditional IT, we rely on the IT crowd to help us out. When we have cloud systems bought from a credit card – we take on the personal responsibility to make sure we’re using it wisely. With flexibility comes power. With power comes great responsibility. This is the developer’s mantra – the …
The principle of having a process in place is all well and good until you actually need to use it. This week I got COVID, so you might have noticed a drop-off in the frequency of communications. My July plan has been until now 1) get up at 6:30 and do a workout and 2) …
The next system is the next chocolate out of the box. You don’t always know what you’re going to get until you bite. If you believe the hype, the website, the sales call: The system you buy from them will the last one you’ll need You’ll be able to install it and configure it yourself …
Well all know that I.T. – information technology and information systems – are important for our business. But have you ever stopped to think why? We are now in the sixth decade of the I.T. business revolution, defining the starting point as the 1970s when affordable computing power started to appear. Affordable computing power started …
Until now in this series of articles we’ve been focussing on what to do before you automate as well as what to look for after we automate. What about how we go about automating? Tool selection is a moving target. Depending on what you want to do, what you have right now and what is …
There is verifiable wisdom in Conway’s Law. The pattern it describes has been accidentally repeated thousands if not millions of times in software projects all around the world. So what is it? Who is Mr Conway and why should you care about this? A New System Appears Have you ever worked with a new computer …
Growing up I was always what you might call an “instinctive techie”. I wanted to take things apart. You’re probably heard the story before: one takes things apart to understand how things work. With some people it’s insects or animals, with some people it’s clocks or cars or mechanisms, and for me while there was …
There’s nothing wrong with your business right? Yes you could do with some time, a couple of more customers, or a bit more of a break in the busy periods, or some help, but you are busy the whole time so it must be good right? If so then why are you reading this article? …