by Dave McComb | Mar 1, 2017 | Business Case & ROI
Integration Debt is a Form of Technical Debt As with so many things, we owe the coining of the metaphor “Technical Debt” to Ward Cunningham and the agile community. It is the confluence of several interesting conclusions the community has come to. The first was that...
by Dave McComb | Jun 1, 2016 | Business Case & ROI
In the previous installment (The Data Centric Revolution: The Evolution of the Data Centric Revolution Part One), we looked at some of the early trends in application development that foreshadowed the data centric revolution, including punched cards, magnetic tape,...
by Dave McComb | Mar 1, 2016 | Business Case & ROI
We have been portraying the move to a Data-Centric paradigm as a “Revolution” because of the major mental and cultural shifts that are prerequisites to making this shift. In another sense, the shift is the result of a long, gradual process; one which would have to be...
by Dave McComb | Dec 1, 2015 | Business Case & ROI
Of all the dangers that befall those on the journey to data centrism, by far the greatest danger is Appliosclerosis. Appliosclerosis, or as lay people know it- hardening of the silos, can strike any one at any time, but some are more prone to it than others. By the...
by Dave McComb | Sep 1, 2015 | Business Case & ROI
This is the first of a regular series of columns from Dave McComb. Dave’s column, The Data-Centric Revolution, will appear every quarter. Please join TDAN.com in welcoming Dave to these pages and stop by often to see what he has to say. We are in the early stages of...
by Dave McComb | Aug 2, 2012 | Business Case & ROI
Workers, professionals and managers are all becoming acutely aware of the discrepancy between the performance of consumer based technology and their internal IT department. The gap between the information and services they can get for ‘free’ on the web vs....
