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Beyond ERP Development – Integrated Platforms & Programming
Beyond ERP Development – Integrated Platforms & Programming Dusan Jugovic, Senior Systems Engineer (Partner at Codeeco) September 5, 2018 Developing ERP applications is not something that I had in mind when I started my undergraduate studies in university. During my third year in the Faculty of Science, I was offered an opportunity to join a programming team responsible for refactoring an ERP product for one of the leading IT companies ...
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Searching for Data: The Ignorance Explosion
Searching for Data: The Ignorance Explosion Intkhab Ali, Senior Solution Architect August 29, 2018 About 25 years ago (literally on the cusp of the popularity of the Web), my boss at the time did a symposium presentation on the “ignorance explosion”, which was a play on the phrase “information explosion”. He was not referring to people becoming stupider, but rather the increasing gap between information available and people's capability to process ...
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News Release #2: Architecture-as-a-Service is Here!
News Release #2: Architecture-as-a-Service is Here! Bob Ivkovic, Principal of IT Architects August 22, 2018 In News Release #1, the focus was to explain what Service-as-a-Architecture (AaaS) was, and what it was NOT. There is a lot of confusion as to what AaaS is, and if you conduct a survey with ten IT professionals, chances are that you’ll get ten different answers, ...
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News Release #1: Architecture-as-a-Service is Here!
News Release #1: Architecture-as-a-Service is Here! Bob Ivkovic, Principal of IT Architects August 15, 2018 Everything is a service these days, even architecture. If you’re planning to offer any kind of product or service today, chances are you won’t be the first. I can’t help but think about Kicking Horse Coffee and the fact that they went from a family-owned small town coffee roasting business to being on every supermarket shelf ...
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Managing Projects Without a Framework – Part III
Managing Projects Without a Framework – Part III Marianne Hang, Senior Project Manager August 07, 2018 Taking it Home In part 2 of this blog series, I recommended three key project management documents that are important to build and present early on in a project where there is no project management framework. Now you’re a month or two in and you’ve got some solid documentation in place to help move you and ...
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Managing Projects Without a Framework – Part II
Managing Projects Without a Framework – Part II Marianne Hang, Senior Project Manager July 30, 2018 Now For Some Quick Wins In part 1 of this blog series, I introduced a scenario of landing in a project management role where there is no project management framework. The first steps we talked about to help survive and thrive in such a situation were reviewing documentation and building working relationships. Now that you’ve made ...
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Managing Projects Without a Framework – Part I
Managing Projects Without a Framework – Part IMarianne Hang, Senior Project Manager July 23, 2018 So you’ve been asked to manage a project – but there’s no framework to do that, no PMO in sight, and your client thinks they know what project management is, except they don’t. If you’re lucky, your client is aware of these gaps and knows exactly what a heavy lift they’re asking you for, and ...
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The Art of Establishing an IT Architecture Program – Part II
The Art of Establishing an IT Architecture Program - Part II Gary Silberg, Senior Solution & Enterprise Architect July 16, 2018 In Part I of this blog The Art of Establishing an IT Architecture Program - Part I, I explored why a company would want to create an IT Architecture Program, when to create it, who ...
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The Art of Establishing an IT Architecture Program – Part I
The Art of Establishing an IT Architecture Program - Part I Gary Silberg, Senior Solution & Enterprise Architect July 8, 2018 So you want to establish an Information Technology Architecture Program in your organization? You think your IT projects haven’t been fully successful under the leadership of your Project Managers, Business Analysts, and Technical Leads? Can an IT architecture program really make a difference? Let’s explore this ...
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A Day in the Life of an Aspiring Architect
A Day in the Life of an Aspiring Architect Raza Qazi, Junior Enterprise Architect June 4, 2018 I hadn't even finished my computer science degree when I was offered a junior enterprise architect part-time role while I was in my last year of studies. I didn’t even know that an enterprise architect could be junior. Regardless, this was my big chance to figure out what area of IT I ...
