I’ve been thinking a lot recently about all the stuff that happens outside of traditional enterprise applications. Enterprise software (ERP, CRM, etc) has become good at solving most of the structured work needs in organizations. But, many business problems today require work outside of enterprise applications. These ‘white space’ activities involve research, analysis , collaboration, …
My Love – Hate of Android
I’m a long time BlackBerry user and recently switched to Android. My trackball died, the phone was scratched up, and BB did not offer with my carrier some of the love I wanted, so I looked for an alternative. First let me say I am disappointed that BB has been slow to keep up with …
Business Process as a Service
Despite my assumption that cloud computing will take some time for larger companies to adopt, I do believe we are eventually heading there. But can BPaaS replace BPMS's? David Lampers has an interesting take on the idea that allows for a business process ecosystem built around cloud-based business processes. Still a few years out, but …
What Cloud Computing do You Use?
My brother sent me an email the other day asking the above question. As I thought about my reply, I really did not know how to answer him. I think he was asking where I host my business web site, but I use the cloud for such a variety of things today and the offerings …
Does the Cloud Role?
Cloud computing has been held up as the next great leap organizations should take. Yet, I see few using these offerings for other than standard applications, pre-built features and some non-critical and departmental applications. Customized enterprise applications and those that offer competitive advantage are rarely built in the cloud today. The draw of the cloud …
What is SharePoint
I hear many businesses that are interested in ‘doing something with SharePoint.’ That is kind of like saying I’d like to deploy a Swiss army knife. Depending on what the goals of the business are, SharePoint can be a lot of different things. This post tries to explore what those are. First, let’s start with …
Agile on a Single Page
One page summaries of the values of agile software development.
Getting Real from 37Signals
If you have not already read the philosophies of 37Signals' development, it is time well spent. You can read Getting Real on-line. It overviews the software development ideas that created such programs such as Ruby on Rails and Basecamp. Using simple language and numerous case studies, they layout understanding that agile advocates should have as background. Here's a teaser from their introduction: …
Cost of Software Defects
Is the cost of software defects driven more by time than the stage of its discovery?
Do You Need BPM?
Business Process Management (BPM) application suites push the power of design, execution and improvement of processes toward business users. You've invested a bunch of time, energy and money on your enterprise systems over the years. As soon as those implementations were complete, perhaps even before, something changed in your business. Immediately, the systems you put …
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