I agree with the viewpoint of one of my peers that we should make the best and beneficial use of technology and stay healthy. We as parents introduce our kids to the mobile technology at a very early age in… Continue Reading
It seems a very simple discussion, but once you look both the attributes closely and study these, there’s a thin line leading to confusion. Simple attributes are those that can no further be divided into further meaningful attributes. In other… Continue Reading
To decide if open source applies to one’s project requirements is to investigate if there is an active community supporting it? Does the license seem suitable for the project development? Is the framework being used popularly? An estimation and review… Continue Reading
I agree with the security problem of OSS. According to Black Duck’s latest 2017 Open Source 360 Degree survey, “the effective management of open-source is not keeping pace with the increase in use.” The survey included 819 IT professionals, system architects, security experts and software developers from US and EMEA. Last year saw a remarkable rise in the usage of open source softwares by companies, confirmed by 60% of respondents of this survey. 55% believed that open source gives a boost to business innovation. Despite this, the concerns regarding security are there. 64% are worried about the disclosure of internal applications to misuse through weaknesses in open-source code, and 71% believe that using open-source may also reveal external apps to manipulate. There is also a… Continue Reading
Oracle and MySQL lead to an interesting discussion. Even though the latter is open source, still 97% of Fortune 100 companies use Oracle because of its easy deployment and database management. In the past decade, Oracle has acquired about 100… Continue Reading
Lack of communication is a risk and can have an adverse impact on the project thus leading it towards failure. A report done by the PMI disclosed this fact. Even today several projects are missing effective communication amongst the teams.… Continue Reading
One of the reasons for project failures that caught my attention is “Distance and culture clashes.” It is a debatable issue. When an organization compiles a project team having people from different backgrounds and cultures, in my opinion, their vision… Continue Reading
One of the software project risks is “Correct resource allocation at the correct time is a crucial key to project success”. That is so true and happens all the times in the projects where project managers want tasks finished quickly… Continue Reading
Incomplete requirements can impact the schedule of the project and delay it. That is why requirements validation is essential. The agile approach is beneficial as requirements are validated at the end of every iteration as the end user gets a… Continue Reading