Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar

A few days ago, my friend Frank Scavo wrote about the pendulum starting to swing from commercial software to custom built software .  Today morning, I listened to his podcast with another common friend Den Howlett . I would highly encourage you to read Frank’s blog and listen to the podcast. The movement to DIYContinue reading “The DIY movement in IT – what does it take to succeed ?”

I bought this book on Amazon Prime to read on a plane ride last week to Austin, and the round trip was all the time I needed to finish it, that too at a leisurely pace. I loved Walter Isaacson’s take on Steve Jobs when it came out and expected a similar in-depth treatment onContinue reading “Book Review : Tim Cook, The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level”

Scaled Agile has the status of a religion in many tech shops I know. Like with religions – its followers express unquestioned faith, intolerance for other ideas (Waterfall is the devil, EVERYONE should be trained in SAFe), and its praises will drown its criticisms (its not a problem of the framework –  you are justContinue reading “Scaled Agile does not cure the lack of engineering maturity”