Building Non-Functional Requirements Framework – Requirements Categories
I'm planning on documenting a framework that we built for managing non-functional requirements. This is post #2 of the series. In Post #1, Last In - First Out: Building a Non-Functional Requirements Framework - Overview I outlined the template and definitions for our Non-Functional Requirements. We also had to address outstanding audit findings that ... Read More
Building Non-Functional Requirements Framework – Requirements Categories
I'm planning on documenting a framework that we built for managing non-functional requirements. This is post #2 of the series. In Post #1, Last In - First Out: Building a Non-Functional Requirements Framework - Overview I outlined the template and definitions for our Non-Functional Requirements. We also had to address outstanding audit findings that ... Read More
Building a Non-Functional Requirements Framework – Overview
I'm planning on documenting a framework that we built for managing non-functional requirements. This is post #1 of the series. A pain point for our infrastructure and security teams was a lack of usable, consistent availability and security requirements for our internally developed applications. The business analysts worked with the organization ... Read More
Building a Non-Functional Requirements Framework – Overview
I'm planning on documenting a framework that we built for managing non-functional requirements. This is post #1 of the series. A pain point for our infrastructure and security teams was a lack of usable, consistent availability and security requirements for our internally developed applications. The business analysts worked with the organization ... Read More
Thirty-Four Years in IT – Why not Thirty-Five?
After I was sidelined (Part 10) we had another leadership turnover. This time the turnover was welcome. I ended up in a leadership position under a new CIO. This allowed me to take advantage of some topics that I studied while I was sidelined. My new team took on a couple of ... Read More
Thirty-Four Years in IT – Why not Thirty-Five?
After I was sidelined (Part 10) we had another leadership turnover. This time the turnover was welcome. I ended up in a leadership position under a new CIO. This allowed me to take advantage of some topics that I studied while I was sidelined. My new team took on a couple of ... Read More
Thirty-four Years in IT – Leadership Chaos, Career Derailed (Part 10)
This post is the hardest one to write. I've been thinking about it for years without being able to put words to paper. With the COVID-19 stay-at-home directive, I can't procrastinate anymore, so here goes.As outlined in Part 9, Fall 2011 was a tough period. To make it tougher, the ... Read More
Thirty-four Years in IT – Leadership Chaos, Career Derailed (Part 10)
This post is the hardest one to write. I've been thinking about it for years without being able to put words to paper. With the COVID-19 stay-at-home directive, I can't procrastinate anymore, so here goes. As outlined in Part 9, Fall 2011 was a tough period. To make it tougher, ... Read More
Thirty-four years in IT – The Application That Almost Broke Me (Part 9)
The last half of 2011 was for me an my team a really, really tough time. As I hinted to in this post, by August 2011 we were buried in Oracle 11 & application performance problems. By the time we were back into a period of relative stability that December, we ... Read More
Thirty-four years in IT – The Application That Almost Broke Me (Part 9)
The last half of 2011 was for me an my team a really, really tough time.As I hinted to in this post, by August 2011 we were buried in Oracle 11 & application performance problems. By the time we were back into a period of relative stability that December, we ... Read More

