Departing staff can really simplify the whole process of assigning responsibility in the work place when things have not gone as well as expected. Though I have not heard of any work place where they actually have literal dummies to take to meetings, most seem content to have a few figurative ones instead.
Like so many other things that reach buzzword status, the use of testing in business seems to be almost symbolic in application rather than practical. Continue reading
Dealing with text encoding, non-latin characters and certain pieces of software can be a truely fun experience, for Dwarf Fortress values of fun. Continue reading
With Gartner telling everyone to jump in a Data Lake and the New York Times discussing managing data it is like the quality of data your data matters. Continue reading
According to someone I met, apparently ‘Agile’ means making decisions quickly without recording why. Continue reading