So how do you work out what you really need? There are as many answers to that question as there are practitioners of the subtle art of requirements gathering. I think it’s important to employ common sense and not adhere to a purely academic approach here. Ultimately you are dealing with software for people, and [...]
Commissioning software is *hard*. Lots of people have lots of potentially conflicting ideas and opinions; you might have a legacy system that does almost what your users want, but not quite; you might want to make use of a new technology, or introduce more automation into the process to drive greater efficiency. How do you [...]
Listening to Radio 4 this morning (I love Farming Today!), I was listening to the news reporting that Jack Straw has executed a u-turn on the plan to build large prisons. To my amazement, people were mocking him for having changed his mind. Much as I generally dislike Jack Straw, my opinion of him improved [...]
Whilst I don’t want to appear to dismiss the pain of those who have been unfortunate enough to lose jobs or income as a result of the economic downturn, it appears that it’s a really exciting time for those of us who enjoy making things better. Most companies have some form of IT infrastructure: you [...]