The real cost of buying an IT-system
What is the real cost of buying an IT-system?
I would say, "Buying an IT-system is like buying a horse". It's often more expensive than you thought and you can see the video on youTube how to buy a horse
Design for additional requirements, or not?
Do you need architecture when doing agile development? The philosophy of Agile is to do the least amount of something and no more for a given situation, but is this always a good approach?
Learning from mistakes
When reviewing programs, projects and solution designs from an architecture perspective, I often see people doing the same mistakes as others have done before. I did some of them 25-30 years ago and I see people doing the same mistakes today.
I need a new IT-platform, but why?
IT is not fashion, so why do I need a new IT-platform?
When a client want a new IT-platform, my question is why? Isn’t the old one still usable? If they have a hard time to give a reasonable answer, I try to ask some leading questions.
Ask your customer for their references
A few days ago, at the local harbour, we chatted a little bit to a guy that was a project manager. He told a recent story that made me think about how we work in the IT industry today.