Writing by Brent Rockwood
On my product team we have been using the SCRUM methodology of software development for a while. For those of you not familiar with it, here is the oversimplified version…
Get a big list of all the things you want to do, prioritized by our customers (in our case by proxy via our product manager)
Estimate how many [...]
One of the other tracks I have been following at CanHEIT is on identity management. At Quest we care about this quite a bit. Our customers have obvious concerns about security and compliance, as well as significant costs associated with customer, employee, and partner identity.
It probably shouldn’t have surprised me that our institutions of higher [...]
I went to see Tim Bray talk at CanHEIT this morning. I really enjoyed the talk, though I missed the first two or three minutes as he seems to have started fifteen minutes before his scheduled time. I’ve never had a chance to see him speak before and I was not disappointed. I’ll try to [...]
I will be attending the Canadian Higher Education and Information Technology conference at the University of Waterloo at the end of the month. I’m very interested to learn more about the challenges faced by universities and public institutions in general around the issues of governance and regulatory compliance, configuration management, and identity management. The smart [...]
From the Facebook help…
When we created the poke, we thought it would be cool to have a feature without any specific purpose.
Seriously.
