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How do I get my team to be agile?
April 1, 2018
Forming an agile software development team can be a challenge when the enterprise is burdened with document-heavy processes and legacy company department structures. Often terms get mixed and matched to suit a particular situation, so it’s worth reviewing what it really means to be agile. “Agile methodology” is a term that originated from a famous […]
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Hadoop and Paper-Based Digitization
March 15, 2016
Hadoop is able to make solving many real-world problems much easier, but sometimes the system design can mean unnecessary duplication of data and limited access. One example is in the digitization of paper-based content. Rasterizing PDF in commercial printing One of the key features of the PDF print description language is that each page is […]
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THE LIMITS OF TRIBAL KNOWLEDGE FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Managing the data around complex machines such as airplanes, groundbreaking equipment or wellheads is challenging. The formal data (most commonly geometry, telemetry, and simulation data) may be stored in dozens of repositories. Related informal data – such as Word documents or PDFs from the Engineering team – could be just about anywhere. For the last […]
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EXPOSING HIDDEN DATA
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
One of the recurring themes in big data is that we are confronted with a tsunami of unstructured data. We then rush out to look for tools to digest and process this data. For example, a favorite tool is to index everything and then use a search engine to work with this data. We search […]
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