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Picking your way through the productising minefield Learning to ‘just say no’ Before getting involved in technology, Paul Kearney was in the military Aitemology Plenty of tech companies face the same dilemma; how to 'productise' their legacy software solution so they can scale it through cloud-based technology and ultimately satisfy the difficult questions all future investors or acquirers will inevitably ask. While the easy answer may be to start again, that's rarely an option. No CTO worth their weight would recommend a greenfield rewrite, and more importantly, doing so often just perpe...

Code Quality Control And Why You Need It If companies don't measure source code quality, how do they know if they're building software effectively? Poor code quality deteriorates productivity and efficiency. by Code Quality is an important thing, right? Everyone knows that. And everyone agrees on that. So, why do most software companies: have no Code Quality definition, use Code Quality standards inconsistently, or don’t measure their Code Quality? In this article, I am going to focus on the 3rd problem mentioned, which is the lack of control over Code Quality. Two first bullets are of co...

Refactoring "Know your enemy, know yourself, and in a hundred battles you will never be defeated" managementese. It’s a great essay on communication — and how, in the workplace, communication naturally optimizes for clarity and speed. Weird phrases that we often mock, such as " action item", or " circling back", are actually highly efficient vectors of meaning. They fit non trivial concepts in very few words, and are understood by everybody. One of such great metaphors is Technical Debt. Technical Debt is widely used and discussed within engineering teams. It’s a successful concept, I ...

Press Release – IDC Global technology market research company IDC has released its 2021 Top 10 IT Industry trends for New Zealand. The report , IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2021 Predictions New Zealand Implications provides IDC’s vision for how New Zealand … Global technology market research company IDC has released its 2021 Top 10 IT Industry trends for New Zealand. The report, IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2021 Predictions –New Zealand Implications provides IDC’s vision for how New Zealand organisations will deploy and consume technology over the next five ye...