by Colin Cecil | Jan 16, 2025 | Best Practices, Delivering Value, Technical Debt
Archiving an application’s data to a data vault takes time, effort and is a costly undertaking. The data migration must be planned, executed, tested and documented. Decisions have to be taken on which reports are required, then these also have to be built,...
by Colin Cecil | Oct 20, 2024 | Delivering Value, Service Delivery, Technical Debt
There is a common misconception that savings from an application retirement are realized at the time of retirement. In reality a large portion of the savings can be realized at the time of decommissioning, and with good planning savings can be realized earlier in the...
by Colin Cecil | Oct 19, 2024 | Best Practices, Delivering Value, Risk Management, Technical Debt
The process of archiving data can be expensive, from the movement and testing of data, the creation of reports and the documentation of the process. It is necessary when the data is subject to records retention and needs to preserved for a long period. Another option...
by Colin Cecil | Aug 17, 2024 | Best Practices, Delivering Value, Risk Management
Keep it All or Slice and Dice? Easiest post on this site. Back in the 80s data storage was at a premium, particularly in mainframes. I remember thinking that the 160MB hard disk in my new computer was absurd and that I’d never fill it – now a single video...
by Colin Cecil | Aug 16, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Delivering Value
Quick aside. This is a group of people celebrating that according to AI are “mixed ethnicity and age”. WTF? Rant #1 Over … On To A Rant About The Fundamental Failure of Application Design Of all the posts on this blog this may be the one that matters...
