Software patents are a Very Bad Thing

I got a call today from a reporter who asked me for my feelings on software patents. He was trying to do an even-handed piece about how software patents might be bad but they might encourage innovation, blah, blah, blah. I found myself going on a rant about the…

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Jul 13, 2013

Proposed IT Services sales tax has bad consequences

As I write this, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick is trying to persuade the legislature to approve a new tax that will charge any buyer in Massachusetts a 6.25% sales tax for the purchase of online services, programming services, or…

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Aug 5, 2013

Mythical Man Month and Scaling Theory

After 50 years of banging our heads against the bloody wall, we are finally ready to vanquish the big-project problems described in the Mythical Man Month. I described this in the new ebook as the “The most expensive problem in tech,” and I summarized some of the…

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Sep 12, 2013

Momentum for Tech Tax Repeal Builds to a Climax

I started posting about the Massachusetts #techtax back on July 13. Seasoned observers noted that the only way that the tech industry in Massachusetts could be targeted by such a bad policy was if they were completely lacking in political activity…

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Nov 11, 2014

Why AI Now?

My friend Brad Power has been studying IBM Watson, and he writes “Do you have some ideas, or know of someone I could talk to, with some ideas on why AI seems to be coming of age now? … I’m starting skeptical since Index spawned Applied Expert Systems, which didn’t get traction in the 1980s.”

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Sep 9, 2015

Introducing the Third Generation Blockchain, connecting big-time trading, messaging, and ledgers

I have been working with Blockchain Clearing Corporation (BCC) on a big idea with a lot of implications. I just unveiled some of the technology strategy on Medium…

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Aug 1, 2013

Continuous Delivery Introduction from the Assembla blog

Andy and the team at Assembla have been posting articles about Continuous Agile (which we used to call Scalable Agile) on the Assembla blog for about a year. Here are four of the “Greatest Hits” that introduce many of the key ideas: