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No C in Teamwork It’s easy to confuse teamwork and success. They aren’t always the same. Sometimes to be successful you have to suspend your own needs to work towards a greater good, which in the end is better for everybody.

Kill Your Children Selling new ideas, especially ones with a technology basis, can be difficult. People get bored so quickly with technology presentations, and yet they will sit through a two-hour film without any difficulty. It’s all about narratology.

Managing People We all have to face that stay-technical or manage decision at some point in our IT careers. But why not both? Are not the best managers those that retain a feel for what IT is all about?

Non-Functional Requirements

Hold on a tick People like their systems to be fast. It’s because we hate to wait. In software sometimes there are delays, but they don’t have to be annoying.

Megaprojects Don’t get seduced. When it comes to projects, big is most certainly not better. It’s a recipe for disaster.

Interface Catalogue A template for capturing interfaces between applications on a project. Quite simple, but very effective for planning and communication.

Amdahls Law A simple calculator to explore the implications of Amdahl’s Law on business processes.

Space-based Archetypes The third of three articles on the space-based architecture. This one looks at how the patterns of SBA deployment naturally lend themselves to supporting systemic requirements.

Space-based Agility The second of three articles on spaced-based architecture. This one explains why using SBA can make you more agile.