I would like to believe that when pilots are locked into the cockpit of a commercial airline and we’re thousands of feet above ground traveling hundreds of miles an hour that these folks are focused completely on the task at hand. Recent developments with a flight bound for Minneapolis have revealed a disturbingRead More »
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Review on Fresh Business Thinking.com
October 15th, 2009
Wrench In The System By Harold Hambrose What’s Sabotaging Your Business Software And How You Can Release The Power To Innovate Read the full review Every year businesses waste billions of pounds, not by squandering money on private jets or bonus schemes, but by using products that drain productivity and reduce profitability – defective SOFTWARE.Read More »
Book review from Processor.com
October 12th, 2009
Fixing Software From the October 9, 2009 Vol.31 Issue 25 of Processor Computer Software is among some of the most intricate and elaborate creations—complexity that’s likely the root of why it’s so failure-prone, hard to use, quirky, and rife with security holes. Yet is software really so different from other inventions? Is it inherently moreRead More »
Book Review on DevSource
October 7th, 2009
Review of Wrench in the System: What’s Sabotaging Your Business Software By Jeff Cogswell This is a beautiful hardcover book printed on glossy pages with full-color photos, and the author says exactly what’s been on my mind for a long time. When I was into the first chapter, I grabbed a highlighter, thinking I’d copyRead More »
Book Review in Computerworld
October 5th, 2009
From a Computerworld review on October 5, 2009. Book review: What’s wrong with software development Wrench in the System has one powerful message: We’re building our software enterprise applications all wrong. . . . Businesses need software “that sparks excitement in its target community of human users–excitement that their work is easier and more enjoyable, that they have becomeRead More »