It’s common practice for IT teams to use a reference list of NFRs (non-functional requirements) as a quality assurance gate to ensure systems are healthy when they are released into production. They form a checklist of operational expectations that must be ticked off...
The other day I found out that the wife of one of my friends has been diagnosed with cancer. As if all this Covid lockdown situation wasn’t bad enough! I’m hoping they have found it early enough to treat and she will be ok. Sadly, this wasn’t the only case I’d heard...
We’ve all heard about large companies suffering serious IT failures. That doesn’t mean smaller organisations are immune – they just don’t make the same sized headlines. What can you do to avoid a damaging IT meltdown? Most of my career has been centred around the...
During the Covid lockdown we have been enjoying helping two organisations with important IT projects. In both cases, the projects require an amount of coordination and project management but neither organisation has a person available to do this neither situation...
As the UK gets closer to going into lock-down we see some interesting phenomenon arising. One that is prevalent in media coverage is CTRH (Coronavirus Toilet Roll Hoarding). In his work on Survival Of The Fittest, Darwin wrote about stocking up on toilet roll as one...
“Suppliers, eh! Who’d have ’em?” Well, we all have them. At home and at work. And the IT landscape has changed from the days when suppliers would be selling you hardware and software products. Today we live in a very service-oriented world. I worked for IBM when Lou...
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