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Media Query Source: Part 49 - InformationWeek (US digital magazine); Effective ways to tame technical debt

* InformationWeek (US digital magazine) * Effective ways to tame technical debt * Technical debt involves weighing trade-offs between short-term and long-term goals * Collaboration is especially critical when the technologies used to build a product drive what the product can provide for customers The query responses I provided to InformationWeek on February 7,

Community Comment: Part 20 - Shifting the debate from 10x engineers to 10x interactions is unwise

* Debate about the "10x" engineer continues * Shifting debate to 10x interactions unwise * Excessive interaction is often a symptom * Say "yes" to beneficial interaction only The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Senior Principal Engineer at Food Delivery Firm: Too many companies delusionally

Community Comment: Part 19 - Firms have more choices than just buy vs build

* Firms have more choices than vendors admit * The "buy vs build" choice is nuanced * Commercial & open source fall on spectrum * Blanket $ statements cannot be made The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. CEO at ELT platform firm: Do you think your data team

Media Query Source: Part 37 The Data Chief (ThoughtSpot podcast)My biggest data priority this year (2022)Delivery of flagship data platformLargest dep

Note: unfortunately for the first time, I withdrew my response from consideration after discussing further with the Deloitte communications team. As I explained to folks at The Data Chief, while my response was generic, some uncertainty had subsequently been introduced as to whether the details I shared were permissible, and

Media Query Source: Part 31

The responses I provided to a media outlet on December 16, 2020: Media: We are looking for the top reasons for why your MVP may fail or succeed. Gfesser: The top reason for MVP (minimum viable product) success or failure revolves around its very definition. Has consensus been reached amongst

Media Query Source: Part 29 - CMSWire (US digital magazine); Change management for digital transformation

* CMSWire (US digital magazine) * Digital transformation change management * "Digital transformation" needs to be defined * Planning essential, but plans should be agile My responses ended up being included in an article at CMSWire (May 11, 2018) entitled "Change Management for Digital Transformation". Above image from cited article.

New Book Review: Disruptive Analytics

New book review for Disruptive Analytics: Charting Your Strategy for Next-Generation Business Analytics, by Thomas W. Dinsmore, Apress, 2016: The author mentions at the outset that analytics industry leaders have been struggling, for reasons apparently not associated with product quality, but with disruption. Powerful forces are rearranging the industry: rapidly

New Book Review: Rethinking Strategy

New book review for Rethinking Strategy, by Steve Tighe, Wiley, 2019: Copy provided by author Steve Tighe. The author mentions in his introduction that he feels this is the book he needed to read on his first day as foresight manager at Foster's. "As I sat at

Building a Data Platform on AWS from Scratch: Part 1

The CIO of a Chicago-based global consultancy contacted SPR to build out a data platform. While the core platform was to be built by the corporate IT organization run by the CIO, the goal was that this platform would be used by other organizations outside corporate IT as well to

Media Query Source: Part 21

The responses I provided to a media outlet on December 4, 2019: Media: Technical debt is the added cost that's incurred when software is developed quickly with little or no regard to quality and must be reworked to reach its intended objectives. Looking for experts who can answer