Cutter Summit: Tim Lister on How To Avoid Litigation
May 9, 2006 Tim Lister gave a wonderful and entertaining talk on the software patent mess and the litigation quagmire that accompanies failed outsource projects. I always find Tim’s perspective refreshing – the audience was alive and engaged in large part due to his remarkably entertaining style. I was privileged to have been invited on-stage […]
The Cutter Summit
May 6, 2006 Tomorrow I head to Boston for the Cutter Summit 2006 Conference. As the description says, it’s a great place to meet great thinkers from around the world, to collaborate and share emerging ideas and to debate them as a group, to leap beyond the mainstream. As expected, it sold out quickly. One […]
Permissible Defects?
April 17, 2006 An interesting thread came up on the IT Toolbox website www.ittoolbox.com on “Permissible Defects.” The question had to do with acceptable industry thresholds for defects on SAP projects (as opposed to other classes of software work.) The reply from a gentleman based in the Netherlands warrants discussion. Here it is for your […]