Blog Note: Part 2 - Blog post categories consolidation
Blog post categories have been consolidated as follows, reflected in the nearby category cloud.
Goals: simplify across the board into less than 20 categories, and update terminology.
analytics ==> dataanalytics ==> blog noteandroidarchitecture
blog note
book reading list
book review
book review solicited
case study
community
conferences
consulting
datadatabases ==> dataenterprise architecture ==> architecture
healthcare software
leadershipmanagement ==> leadershipmarketingmedia queries ==> media querymedia queries quoted ==> media query quoted
media query
media query quotedpersonal note ==> blog note
pro bonopro bono ieee
process improvementreading list ==> book reading list
runningsoftware architecture ==> architecturesoftware development ==> software engineering
software engineeringspeaking ==> leadership
strategy
A few comments on select blog post category changes:
The word "analytics" has often been used as an umbrella term that includes a wide variety of data consumption use cases, but since this term isn't consistently used I've moved all data related blog posts from categories "analytics" and "databases" into a broader "data" category.
A portion of my original blog posts categorized as "analytics" solely focused on Google Analytics for this blog, and as such I've moved these blog posts into category "blog note" (renamed from "personal note").
In contrast to "analytics", I've taken the reverse approach for categories "enterprise architecture" and "software architecture" by moving all of these blog posts into umbrella category "architecture", due to significant redundancy across these two. While I also considered further consolidation into category "software engineering", blog posts heavily focused on high-level components and products arguably aren't well suited for this category.
Because blog posts categorized as "management" also frequently overlap with category "leadership", I've consolidated all of these blog posts into this latter category, keeping in mind that while not all managers are leaders, industry has seemingly standardized on the term "leader" (for more information, refer to my book review of "The Ideal Executive: Why You Cannot Be One and What To Do About It".
The terms "software development" and "software engineering" are arguably synonyms, but because there continues to be industry disagreement as to whether these are the same thing, and "engineering" is often preferred over "development" by experts such as myself, I've consolidated all of these blog posts under "software engineering".
Lastly, I've added category "case study" to highlight some of the articles I've written about past client engagements.
This blog post will be updated to reflect any subsequent minor changes.