August 2010

What I Learned at the AGILE 2010 Conference

Today I concentrated on learning more about Kanban, Scrum, and how it scales to large organizations. I truly believe Kanban is the next “buzz” or “flavor” in the developer community. I have been thinking of how to extend our current Agile solution to support Kanban. From a metrics standpoint, we can easily add support… Continue reading

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The Cost of Compliance

It seems that every industry today is plagued with a growing mound of compliance related red tape. According to Jorge Lopez of Gartner Research, “Over the last few years…budgets that were dedicated to dealing with regulations were rising at a rate that was twice as fast as the IT budgets.” This coupled with economic pressures to do more with… Continue reading

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The Crowd: Who Are They and What Does It Mean?

I’ve been very fortunate to have been able to spend some quality time lately with folks much smarter than me – and while that seems to be the case more often than not, it does get my little mind turning. One topic that keeps popping up is “the crowd” – mainly, the definition of “crowd,” and what it means for …

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Mathcad 15.0 – New Licensing Process

Hello, everyone.  My name is Brent Edmonds, and I’m the Director of Operations for the Mathcad business unit at PTC. To satisfy our valued Mathcad customers, we are continually striving to make changes to the way we interact with our users. Sometimes these changes are small and incremental, and might only have a negligible impact on any one user, and …

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