Author: Steve Quarles

Know Your Role and Stick to it…

By Steve Quarles on September 23, 2014 in Software Development

 

I’m very anxious to continue to follow a Study being conducted by San Francisco State University.  They are conducting a study on what makes a successful software development effort.  The premise of the study builds on my fundamental belief that technology projects fail because of people and more specifically teams.  I personally believe there are […]

 

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What is the Big Deal About Big Data?

By Steve Quarles on September 19, 2014 in Big Data

 

For those of you that don’t know, Big Data is a new spin on an old concept. It’s one part industry rebranding old news and one part a change in old news. Large companies have been capturing massive amounts of data and pushing it to their “Data Warehouse”. Then they would use “Business Intelligence” tools […]

 

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How to Tune an IT Department

By Steve Quarles on September 18, 2014 in Information Technology

 

Information Technology is a mystery for most executives (specifically CEOs and CFOs.  If you poll all C-Level executives, I would bet most of them have a story about an IT project or budget that blew his earnings.  When a CEO has to explain to the board why an ERP implementation went $15 million over budget, […]

 

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Why Building Software is Just Like Building a House

By Steve Quarles on September 12, 2014 in Software Development

 

If you have ever built a house you know that its not an easy process, and fixing up a house can be even more painful. There was a classic 80’s movie called the Money Pit. Tom Hanks was the owner of an old “fixer upper” and the whole movie focused on him going broke on […]

 

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