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Charles Zedlewski: Innovation in Enterprise Software
There’s a very simple model of high tech industry evolution that I saw at MIT. I’m forgetting the name of the specific professor who first drew it up but anyone who knows please tell me and I’ll update the attribution. The model looked something like this:”
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Niel Robertson: Plato’s Software Children
The problem with this open model is that, as a customer, you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. Every customization you’ve made must be evaluated against the vendor’s new baseline. For each customization you have to decide on one of three paths. Has the customization been superseded by the […]
Posted in Delivery, Technology on January 28th, 2006 Comments Off
As strange as it is, although testing seems like a straightforward thing, it is frequently one of the biggest delivery issues. At the same time it takes quite a lot of effort to do. Having better capabilities and processes would certainly help, but there is also a question of automated tools:
“At its core, automated testing […]