We have determined that extending the paperless office initiative to the bathroom is unacceptable scope creep.

Think of all the millions of man hours that have gone into SQL Server, Oracle, PostGres, MySQL, Teradata, Neteeza etc.  Imagine waking up one morning and thinking that you could...

I know of a system that is still active that allows a £2million revenue stream that runs on an app written in Clipper.  The fundamentals of the business process...

Already moved.  It has been a bit of a journey.

As with many IT innovations phase one is trying to do what you are doing today with new equipment and not...

We went through a formal process to do this to ensure that we knew exactly what GDPR exposure we had.  It took ages because we had undocumented processes that either...

Great Steve. I'll file this next to your previous best April Fool. SQL Server being available on Linux

I think that people take a while to grasp the implications of any technology shift.  Fred P Brooks "There ain't no silver bullet" still holds true.

When VMs came along we...

Trunk based development works well when the deliverable is small incremental pieces of work delivered frequently.  A rigorous set of mechanical tests is also essential.
It works well with stateless...

No Rod, you have it exactly right. You expressed it far better than I did

For me technical debt is putting in place something that will be a pain point that will manifest from early on and which is known to be a pain point...

Many speakers are volunteers. Putting together a quality presentation takes time and effort that is many multiples of the time and effort to deliver that presentation. Asking someone to have...

My company has started to look beyond graduates and into schools. Doing this means we accept that a heavier commitment to training.  A great deal of effort is going in...

Once you are in a senior position your role is to develop the team, not the software.

The individuals with a poor attitude are far more rare than their...