80-20: the deadly cause of IT project failure

There seems to be a rush of IT failure topics these days, all trying to find the Holy Grail of project failure. While I hold that this is a world of AND and AND, not OR and OR, I do see a major cause for project failure for the last decade: shifting from serial processing (waterfall) to parallel (Agile, Scrum, and so on)

Apart from the fact that Agile is solely focused on delivering a project rather than a product, this is not an Agile-bashing post: it is intended to show a very weak spot of contemporary IT projects

Recognise your parents' dementia in an early stage

No label for this post - wouldn't know how to.

As you may or may not know, my parents are over 80 and both in an advanced stage of dementia, or "suffering from memory-loss" if you like. Whether it's an official diagnosis or not, the results are that slowly, sometimes quickly, and then slowly again, life-as-we-know-it slips out of them

Through the various stages of anger, denial, acceptance, "ignorance" and all kinds of grayscale in between, me and my brother are now still watching from the side, trying to act when we have to, hands tied on our back - because there is nothing we can do

Why SAP will be single-tenant at start

There's an interesting discussion going on about multi-tenancy and SAP.
Let me be clear on one thing: SaaS can't be anything else but multi-tenant and opt-out, meaning that there is a single code base for all customers, with regular upgrades for everyone at the same time

But what is only natural for SaaS "pure players" will be impossible to realise for SAP - a small step for one can be a giant leap for others