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Era of Reasoning
Enterprise software is becoming a system of reasoning that weighs decisions and acts. Its limit is meaning, and the contest is who owns the reasoning layer.
When the Org Chart Stops Organizing
Every company is two graphs, the org chart and the value chain. As agents absorb routing, the chain becomes the one the company runs on.
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The Return of the Builder
Intent, clarity, and the craft of building software when implementation gets cheap.
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The Self-Driving Enterprise
How AI is reshaping enterprise software, from ambient ERP to autonomous workflows.
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My Life with AI
A personal narrative of building alongside machines, from a TRS-80 to today.
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Random Thoughts from the Trenches
Software craft, leadership, estimation, and whatever else is on my mind.
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Random Thought
As a software professional I keep being astonished what users accept and put up with, when it comes to faulty, buggy and unfathomable useless apps or systems. You download an app from an AppStore, or…
Running apps without connectivity
The other day on my daily commute I was, as usual, reading the latest news on technology and other, to me, interesting areas, I ended up spending most of my commute reflecting on the subject of mobile…
Will Windows 8 bring MS into the tablet/phone game?
Recent I had a discussion about the contents of the following article: http://gizmodo.com/5839665/windows-8-slate-hands-on-its-fantastic-but-dont-sell-your-ipad, where I labeled a post: "Eventually…
Elephant butt, Software Development and Estimation
Okay, here's an interesting question: what does an elephant butt, software development and estimation have in common? At first thought not really much, but then again they actually have a lot in…
Smart Clients Versus Web Clients - What's the Answer?
For a long period of time every ISV jumped on the browser bandwagon, meaning creating web versions of their existing fat clients. This transition was driven by Google's everything web mantra, together…
Is HTML5/JS really the Silver Bullet for Mobile Applications?
HTML5 and JavaScript seems to be getting a lot of attention and being pushed as the next great set of technologies for write-once-deploy-many for mobile devices. If that crystallizes it would be great…
Native Tooling versus Non-native Tooling
Recently I've been following some interesting discussions on the subject whether to develop native apps for mobile or using cross platform technologies. Let me elaborate what I mean by native apps. A…
Choosing the right tools
Over the course of the last couple of years, I've been working on a lot of different projects where we initially had to make some technology decisions on what development ecosystem to use. By…
The Future of Software Development
It's becoming more and more clear that monolithic applications are going the way of the Dodo. With the general adoption of smart-phones, tablets computers and social network portals users starts…
Essence of being a successful Development Manager?
The above question was sent to me the other day from a former colleague and friend. He was preparing a presentation for heads of product management and product development, and not being an…
Wizards in software are mostly uninspiring solutions to bad design
Here’s a thought maybe even a provoking one, as everyone seems to have reached at the conclusion that wizards in software are good. The general and agreed upon argument goes; that a wizard shields the…
Methodologies, Better Software and Requirements
Methodologies Methodologies are like patterns, best practices, recipes or how-to’s. They describe how to get from A to B. But none of them claims that it’ll lead to better software, whatever better…