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I remember the first time I was in a management role, more than 25 years ago at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). I was a bit anxious because I had been put in charge of people who had been my peers. Then I surprised my new direct reports by asking them questions no one in management [...]
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Web services aren’t the answer, but you should use them anyway. I’ll tell you why. Let me start with a quick definition of web services. When you use web services, you allow software applications to communicate with each other using three technologies: HTTP, XML, and SOAP. HTTP is the primary protocol used for data transmission [...]
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Like many of you, I travel a lot. Some of the travel requires me to wear business suits, and I’ve had to learn how to pack a suit coat so that it’s wearable when I unpack it. Years ago I learned the secret, but it recently occurred to me that the secret of packing a [...]
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According to a recent study by the Standish Group, only 34% of Information Technology (IT) projects are completed on time and within budget. I believe that a large number of the remaining 66% of projects get in trouble because they don’t adequately consider the human side of the projects. Good CIO’s recognize that Information Technology [...]
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