The business of Application Design mainly depends on great communication. What great communication means to us though, after many years of doing this with dozens or hundreds of people, is to pay attention to the above statement. Remember the kid’s game where you line them up and whisper something in the ear of […]

Recently, I was discussing with a colleague the difference between a primarily Microsoft environment and the so called ‘Open Source’ environment. I made the comment that it is sort of like the difference between selecting a unified approach vs. a build-it-yourself with Lincoln Logs approach. My colleague laughed and said, “Some people would call the […]

I wish I was asked this question more often before projects get in trouble. There are many application development projects that go well in this world. But as a company that gets called regularly to “finish” a project that is “almost done”, we see our share of projects that are completely off track. […]

What does custom application development look like when it is done well? While there may be other thoughts on this, and other people using processes that are not exactly the same and getting good results, I can guarantee that there are certain parts that MUST happen for a project to be successful. If […]

Having written that Tape Backup is not recommended, I should now write about what we are recommending for a solution. Prudent marketing might make me say: “email me to find out”, but that’s not in the spirit of a good blog and frankly, it’s not that hard to figure out what I might be thinking […]