The new book Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals is chock full of practical advice for anyone starting or growing a new business. Best of all they keep their advice short and to the point. Here is some of the advice from the book that I found most useful. Let me know what…

Waterman International Software Services is excited to announce our new strategic partnership with Buzz Architect (buzzarchitect.com ) – a leading Los Angeles based social influence & digital marketing agency. Buzz Architect’s clients include the entertainment based firms Rogers & Cowan,…

Those of us who have worked in the automotive software business have long waited for the day when we would emerge from the shadow of our PC and Internet counterparts. When the public would finally come to appreciate our efforts and give us the acclamations we have long worked hard for and so rightly…

I know that you believe that you understand what you think I said but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.  - unknown Why should you bother developing requirements for your project? After all this is the new world of Agile software development. In their book Get…

So is the recession over or not? Well, if you attended this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last weekend, you know that the answer seems to be “What recession?”  The focus of the show was overwhelmingly positive. No one was talking about the recession except in the con…

There is never enough time to do it right the first time, but always enough time to go back and do it again! – unknown I’ve worked on projects where too much time was spent developing requirements, waiting until they were perfectly defined (which they never were), only to guarantee excessive ti…

“I know that you believe that you understand what you think I said but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”  - Anonymous Often the simplest and things to do are the exact things that we don’t do. We rationalize that it must be more complicated than that.…

The following are adapted excerpts from the December 8, 2009 Wall Street Journal article “Journalism and Freedom” by Rupert Murdoch. 1. The future of journalism belongs to the bold, and the companies that prosper will be those that find new and better ways to meet the needs of their viewers, lis…