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English degree, Tech Career
What is the career value of an English degree in a technology career? I graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English Literature, focus on American poetry. My thesis was on Emily Dickinson. I’ve been working in information technology ever since. So I’m biased on this subject. I’m hardly the only person with this…
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Merger & Acquisition Failures
Sometimes when two companies love each other very much… Companies buy other companies. Maybe it’s to pump marketshare or shut down competition. Sounds like a boring transaction as long as regulators don’t mind. Or maybe it’s to get technology and people. Those are exciting projects, full of hope and dreams. And yet, so much of…
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Tools and the Analyst
Let’s say I’m responsible for a complex system. I might have a lot of titles, but for a big part of my job I’m an analyst of that system. I need tools to help me see into it and change its behavior. As an analyst with a tool, I have some generic use cases the…
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Dev and Test with Customer Data Samples
The short answer is don’t do it. Accepting customer data samples will only lead to sorrow. Not even if they gave it to you on purpose so you can develop for their use case or troubleshoot their problem. The person who wants you to do that may not be fully authorized to give you that…
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From Enterprise to Cloud, Badly
Sometimes enterprise companies try to go cloudy for bad reasons with bad outcomes. I’m going to talk about those instead of well-planned initiatives with good outcomes because it’s more fun. So you’ve got an enterprise product and you’re facing pressure to go to the Cloud… after all, that’s regular recurrent revenue instead of up-front tranches,…
