I have been passionately blogging for the past several years in hopes of sharing my thoughts, rants and screeds with others under the guise from incite comes insight. The name of my blog was derived from an individual whom is now a partner at Deloitte that I hope to work with again in the future.In the meantime, I hope that others will continue the conversation and pick up where I have left off...Pray, Fast and Be Charitable... Read Full Story
I have been passionately blogging for the past several years in hopes of sharing my thoughts, rants and screeds with others under the guise from incite comes insight. The name of my blog was derived from an individual whom is now a partner at Deloitte that I hope to work with again in the future.In the meantime, I hope that others will continue the conversation and pick up where I have left off...Pray, Fast and Be Charitable... Read Full Story
I frequently get asked why do IT recruiters consistently look for candidates with three years of experience in a certain technology when the technology has only been in existence for one year. Figured I would share insights into the challenges of recruiting...The two recruiters in my travels that I have been most impressed with are Jordan Haberfield and Lisa Matkowski. They do not know all the latest buzzwords nor even are developers by trade, yet they excel at what they do. They are savage ... Read Full Story
I frequently get asked why do IT recruiters consistently look for candidates with three years of experience in a certain technology when the technology has only been in existence for one year. Figured I would share insights into the challenges of recruiting...The two recruiters in my travels that I have been most impressed with are Jordan Haberfield and Lisa Matkowski. They do not know all the latest buzzwords nor even are developers by trade, yet they excel at what they do. They are savage ... Read Full Story
Being a developer in a large corporation is challenging and sometimes their approach is even more challenging to enterprise architects...In most enterprises, there is rarely if any training afforded to the developer community even when the company has a training program for others within IT such as project managers. At best, the enterprise might reimburse you for a book you buy. Sadly, most enterprises operate off the mindset that developers are supposed to arrive on their first day with ever... Read Full Story
Being a developer in a large corporation is challenging and sometimes their approach is even more challenging to enterprise architects...In most enterprises, there is rarely if any training afforded to the developer community even when the company has a training program for others within IT such as project managers. At best, the enterprise might reimburse you for a book you buy. Sadly, most enterprises operate off the mindset that developers are supposed to arrive on their first day with ever... Read Full Story
IT is somewhat unique in its beliefs where developers can report to someone who has never written a line of code. Imagine how society would function if police officers had to report to a police chief who didn't know how to fire a gun...Being an architect in a large enterprise, the biggest challenge for most architects is in staying technical and grounded in reality. It is way too easy to become a buzzword parrot where one spends more time thinking of cool phrases that otherwise have empty mea... Read Full Story
IT is somewhat unique in its beliefs where developers can report to someone who has never written a line of code. Imagine how society would function if police officers had to report to a police chief who didn't know how to fire a gun...Being an architect in a large enterprise, the biggest challenge for most architects is in staying technical and grounded in reality. It is way too easy to become a buzzword parrot where one spends more time thinking of cool phrases that otherwise have empty mea... Read Full Story
I find it fascinating how vendors continually make the wrong mistakes in selecting which industry analyst firms to work with and figured I would share some perspectives not written about elsewhere...Let's face it, while industry analysts believe their value proposition is more than just being a way to generate leads, that's kinda the reason most vendors shell out lots of money for their services. I suspect that many vendors are simply trusting the metrics received from analyst firms and not a... Read Full Story
