Budgetary constraints, coupled with an aversion to the risk that 'big' software development entails, mean that few organisations are now motivated to rewrite their core applications using newer languages and technologies.
Once there is awareness of the constraints, the next step is to widen the sphere of experience. The longer questions like these are delayed, the harder the cycle is to break. But we need to ask the questions.
The majority of developers work on a project basis, with heavy cost and time constraints. While this is entirely understandable, it is equally easy to see that this doesn’t necessarily always lead to the best possible outcome: not only does quality...
Make available sample code and a software development kit for integrating Office applications, such as Excel, into SAP's applications. Microsoft in recent years has increased its investment and development resources in building enterprise resource...
In a way, this is true, for as the western world has over the last few centuries placed less emphasis on authority and more on reasoned criticism, so we seem to have made great strides. We are inclined to think that science is the best example of...
They need to understand the implications of delays and budget constraints on one project on the overall programme and the effect on total ROI of the programme of a single project's failure. At this point you need to set objectives, arrange the work...