Scrum Screwed Up
This was the inaugural cartoon on Implementing Scrum by Michael Vizdos and Tony Clark, which does a great job of…
What Ever Happened to Artificial Intelligence?
According to predictions from the mid-twentieth century . . . we should all have household robots by now, and they…
Dilbert, Data Quality, Rabbits, and #FollowFriday
For truly comic relief, there is perhaps no better resource than Scott Adams and the Dilbert comic strip. Special thanks…
Posterous DOS attack. Someone should write the story
I have a blog on Posterous, a very interesting and agile Web service. Just now I received an apologetic email…
Why Amazon and Apple Will Not Kill Each Other
When Farhad Manjoo is not battling angry tweeters over his allegedly racist Slate article on "blacktags," he is writing interesting material about…
Change Management and Data Governance
Years ago, I worked for a large company that spent time and effort on change management. It has been popular…
One Third of All Software Delivered via Cloud in 2014
IDC reports in a recent press release that: The Software as a Service (SaaS) market had worldwide revenues of $13.1…
4 Tips for Effective Change Management
Information technology implementations collectively cost organizations billions of dollars per year, yet most of these ventures fail to meet management expectations. Much of the…
Worthy Data Quality Whitepapers (Part 3)
In my April 2009 blog post Data Quality Whitepapers are Worthless, I called for data quality whitepapers worth reading. This…
A Sunday’s Worth of Numbers: Data Analytics on the Airwaves
Three intriguing data analytics-related stories turned up recently on two radio shows, on one Sunday. Honestly—what are the odds? First,…