Big Data: Defining and Mining the Latest TrendOnce you've found a definition of big data that you agree with, and calculated how much of it you have, now what? The mining and analyzing of big data has only just begun and while its benefits aren't guaranteed, it's possibilities are too enticing for anyone to simply ignore.
Is Your Team Too Large?What’s the right size for a team? The answer would be simple if there were an optimal size, but there’s not. If you’re going to get the size wrong, better to make the team too small than too large.
NASA Seeking StartupsNASA is seeking proposals from startups and small businesses for early-stage technology financing. NASA wants to help provide opportunities to compete for federal research and development awards and to hopefully stimulate eventual commercial launch of the technology.
Playing the Critical Friend through Enterprise AnalysisEnterprise analysis focuses on achieving a solid understanding of the problem or opportunity and the business and customer value that the organization hopes to achieve. An important part of enterprise analysis is acting as a critical friend when stakeholders can't see beyond the silver packaging.
Knight Capital's Quality Control and CM ProblemsOn August 1, 2012, Knight Capital experienced what all IT shops hope to avoid. A software release that was put into production caused more than $440 million in trades to take place. Joe Townsend explores the quality control and CM issues that created the problem.
Are Data Centers Harming the Environment?Since The New York Times’s explosive piece on data centers and their apparent harmful effects on the environment came out, members of the tech media and industry have voiced their concerns about what the article got wrong.
Are Change Packages Really Necessary in Software CM?A change package in software configuration management goes by many names. The CM industry realizes that the change package concept is fundamental to software CM and that life without updates can be complex.
There’s More to User Experience Than Pretty PixelsUser experience (UX) is not solely about layout, colour themes, and pretty pixels. User experience is about making your product work well for your users. UX designers attempt to narrow the gap between what people expect your product to do and what it actually does.
